Steven Pelech

-Dr. Pelech received his B.Sc. (1979, Honours) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in Biochemistry from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He undertook five years of postdoctoral training with Sir Philip Cohen at the University of Dundee in Scotland and Nobel laureate Dr. Edwin Krebs at the Howard Hughes Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1987, he was one of the founding scientists of the Biomedical Research Centre at UBC, and he joined the UBC faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine in 1988. He has been a full professor at UBC since 1997. Dr. Pelech was the principal founder of Kinetek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, which were spin-out companies from his UBC research program. He has been an active member of the UBC Experimental Medicine Graduate Program Committee, a course instructor in graduate courses in this program (including MEDI-501, MEDI-502 and MEDI-590), and a direct research supervisor for over 21 graduate students and over 173 undergraduate coop-education trainees. He has also been Vancouver Senate representative for the Faculty of Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies since October 2020.