Antoine Dufour-“Keep up with the T.E.M.P.O. in the omics era”

Biography:

Dr. Antoine Dufour is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. He is the Scientific Director of the Mass Spectrometry Core Facility at the University of Calgary. He received a BSc in SUNY Oswego NY before completing his PhD at Stony Brook University, NY. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at UBC in Vancouver. Dr. Dufour’s research is focused on the role of proteases in immunity and novel drug target identification in inflammatory diseases, with a particular interest in quantitative mass spectrometry and systems biology. Most recently, Dr. Dufour was named as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2020, was awarded the 2021 Young Investigator Award from the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry and the Groll Calpain award in 2022.