Ralph Pantophlet, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Associate Member, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar (2012-2020)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator (2009-2015)

Office: Blusson Hall, Room 11712
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Education

• B.Sc., Medical Microbiology, Hogeschool Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Ph.D., Medical and Biochemical Microbiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Biography

Dr. Ralph Pantophlet is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, where he researches antibody responses and vaccine development for infectious diseases. He heads the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases Immunology and serves as the director and scientific lead of the Flow Cytometry and BIO3 laboratories at the university.

Born in Aruba, Dr. Pantophlet completed his early education there before earning a B.Sc. in medical microbiology from Hogeschool Rotterdam in 1995 and a Ph.D. in immunochemistry from Leiden University in 1999 (the Netherlands). His research for both his BSc and PhD mainly took place at the Research Center Borstel (Germany). He conducted postdoctoral research on anti-HIV antibodies and vaccine design at Scripps Research (US) under Dr. Dennis Burton. Briefly returning to the Research Center Borstel for postdoctoral work in 2002, he rejoined the Burton laboratory in 2003 as a senior postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Pantophlet joined Simon Fraser University as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and also holds an Associate Membership position in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.