Ralph Pantophlet
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Assistant Professor CIHR New Investigator
Biography:
Dr. Pantophlet is an Assistant 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. Dr. Pantophlet received his B.Sc. degree in medical microbiology from the Hogeschool Rotterdam & Omstreken (The Netherlands) (1995) and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) (1999) for his work on the immunochemical properties of Acinetobacter lipopolysaccharides (performed at the Research Center Borstel, Germany). He moved to The Scripps Research Institute 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 vaccine design (2003).
Research Interests:
Research work in Dr. Pantophlet's laboratory is focused on investigating antibody responses to HIV and other viruses of biomedical interest, particularly in the context of host-virus interactions and anti-viral antibody responses. Knowledge gained from studying the interactions of antibodies with viruses will be applied to the 'rational' design of immunogens that may be developed into modern pre-clinical vaccine candidates and, ultimately, new and better vaccines. Techniques based on various scientific disciplines, including molecular biology, virology, biochemistry, and immunochemistry, are strongly applied in the laboratory. For more information visit the Pantophlet Lab website.
Teaching Interests:
Dr. Pantophlet's teaching interests include humoral immunology (B-cells, antibodies), antiviral antibody responses, and HIV/AIDS.
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