INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
Prof Chris Overall
University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
Professor Christopher Overall is a Full Professor, Distinguished University Scholar and Canada Research Chair Laureate in Protease Proteomics and Systems Biology at the University of British Columbia; an Honorary Professor at Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany, and a Yonsei Distinguished Scholar of Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He was a Senior Fellow of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany (2010–2013) and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Protease Proteomics and Systems Biology (2001–2022). Dr Overall was inducted as a fellow into the Royal Society of Canada (FRASC) Academy of Science in 2018 and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS) in 2005.
Dr. Overall completed his B.D.S., Honours Science and Master’s degrees at the University of Adelaide, South Australia; his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, Canada; and was an MRC Centennial Fellow in his postdoctoral training with Dr. Michael Smith, Nobel Laureate, Biotechnology Laboratory, UBC. He launched his lab at UBC in 1993. On sabbatical in 1997 – 1998, he was a Senior Scientist at British Biotech Pharmaceuticals, Oxford, UK, and in 2004 and 2008, a Senior Scientist at the Expert Protease Platform, Centre for Proteomic Drug Discovery, Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. He is now a Creative Destruction Lab Scientist at the UBC Sauder School of Business and a consultant for Genentech, Novartis and several Biotechnology companies.