Andre Buret

Position: Interim Vice-President (Research), University of Calgary, Professor (with tenure), Biological sciences (Science), Adjunct Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology (Medicine), Vice-President (research), co-founder, Antibe Therapeutics, Director, NSERC CREATE Host Parasite Interactions, President World Chito-Ryu Karate Association

Dr. Andre Buret established his research program at the University of Calgary in 1995. Dr. Buret has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, 18 book chapters, and has been invited to deliver more than 300 presentations worldwide. Dr. Buret holds over 20 issued patents, and contributed to the creation of three biotech spin-off companies. He has mentored, as principal supervisor, more than 60 undergraduate research projects, and trained 36 Ph.D and M.Sc. students (all Research-based), as well as 12 post-doctoral fellows (and more than 80 other PhD/MSc students as co-supervisor), who have obtained positions in industry, academia, and government. He serves on many National, and International grant and government committees, and acts as advisor and/or board member for several institutes and private companies.

Dr. Buret was inducted in the Order of the University of Calgary (2013), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (London UK, 2001), a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (2020), and a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association (2009).