Dr Christopher Borchers

Dr Christopher Borchers has been recruited as director of the UVic-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre. Borchers, formerly director of the UNC-Duke Proteomics Facility at the Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, will head up the facility located at the Vancouver Island Technology Park, owned by the Univ of Victoria. He will be accompanied by three other scientists from North Carolina, augmenting the facility's existing staff of eight. The Centre is the longest running protein research centre in Canada and has received more than $7 million in new investment. Borchers, a pioneer in proteomics research, was attracted by the opportunity to engage in large-scale proteomics research. He plans to expand the scope of the Centre's research to include metabolomics, nutrigenomics and bioinformatics. Borchers holds undergraduate and master's degrees in chemistry and a PhD in analytical chemistry from the Univ of Konstanz, Germany....