Christoph Borchers
Prof/ Director
McGill University in Montreal
Canada
Biography
Dr. Borchers received his PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. After his post-doctoral training and staff scientist positions at NIEHS/NIH (NC, USA), he became the director of the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Duke Proteomics Facility and held a faculty position at the UNC Medical School (2001-2006). Since 2006, Dr. Borchers has been at the University of Victoria (UVic), Canada, where he currently holds the positions of Professor in the Dept. of Biochemistry & Microbiology, the Don and Eleanor Rix British Columbia (BC) Leadership Chair in Biomedical & Environmental Proteomics, and Director of the UVic-Genome BC Proteomics Centre. Dr. Borchers is also a Professor in the Dept. of Oncology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he holds the Segal Chair in Molecular Oncology. Dr. Borchers' research is centered around the improvement, development, and application of proteomics and metabolomics technologies, with a major focus on quantitative techniques for clinical diagnostics; a second focus of his research is on the application of protein chemistry and MS to problems in structural proteomics.
Research Interest
protein chemistry,structural proteomics.