Dr. Pantophlet is a tenured Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and an Associate Faculty member of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Dr. Pantophlet joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2008 and heads the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases Immunology. He currently also serves as Head of SFU’s Flow Cytometry Lab (2019-present) and as Scientific Director of the Biocontainment for Infectious Organisms level 3 (BIO3) Lab (2021-present).

Dr. Pantophlet received his B.Sc. degree in medical microbiology from the Hogeschool Rotterdam & Omstreken (now named Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) in The Netherlands (1995) and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands (1999) for his work on the immunochemical properties of Acinetobacter lipopolysaccharides, performed largely at the Research Center Borstel in Germany. He moved to The Scripps Research Institute (now named Scripps Research) in California (2000) for postdoctoral research on anti-HIV antibodies and vaccine design under the mentorship of Dr. Dennis Burton. Dr. Pantophlet returned to the Research Center Borstel for a brief postdoctoral period (2002) and then rejoined the Burton laboratory as a senior postdoctoral fellow to focus on HIV-1 vaccine design (2003).