Michel Bouvier

Biography

Michel Bouvier is a professor of Biochemistry at the Institute for Reseach in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal. He is also the President and Chief Executive Office of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer - Commercialization of Research – IRICoR. Following his Ph.D in Neurological Sciences at the same university in 1985, he completed a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University. In 1989, he returned to Montréal as a professor of biochemistry and a scholar of the Medical Research Council of Canada at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal. He was Chairman of the Biochemistry Department between 1997 and 2005 and was awarded the Hans-Selye/Bristol-Myers Squibb chair in Cell and Molecular Biology that he held between 1997 and 2005. He now holds the Canada Research Chair in Signal Transduction and Molecular Pharmacology. .

Research Interest

Biochemistry