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
Phone: (778) 782-8648 | Fax: (778) 782-5927 | Email: rpantophlet@sfu.ca
Profile: FHS faculty profile | Feature: Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR)

Education

• B.Sc., Polytechnic Faculty, Hogeschool Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Ph.D., University of Leiden, The Netherlands/Research Center Borstel, Germany

Biography

Dr. Ralph Pantophlet is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, where he leads research on antibody responses and vaccine design against infectious diseases. He heads the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases Immunology and oversees the Flow Cytometry and BIO3 laboratories at SFU.

Born in Aruba, Dr. Pantophlet completed his early schooling there before earning a B.Sc. in medical microbiology from the Hogeschool Rotterdam & Omstreken (1995) and a Ph.D. in immunochemistry from the University of Leiden (1999). He conducted postdoctoral research on anti-HIV antibodies and vaccine design at The Scripps Research Institute under Dr. Dennis Burton, returned to Europe briefly for postdoctoral research in 2002, before rejoining the Burton laboratory in 2003 as a senior postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Pantophlet joined SFU in 2008 and also holds an Associate Membership appointment in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.