Pr Bourgault

Steve Bourgault

Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry

Pr Steve Bourgault received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from Université du Québec à Montréal in 2002 before completing a M.Sc. in experimental health sciences (specialization in molecular pharmacology) at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier. He received his Ph.D. (joint doctoral thesis) in 2009 from both INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier in biology and the Université de Rouen (France) in biology (option in medicinal chemistry) under the co-supervision of Pr Alain Fournier and Pr David Vaudry. His graduate research work focuses on the molecular pharmacology and medicinal chemistry of peptide hormones, on the development of synthetic methods for solid phase peptide synthesis and on the structural study of polypeptides.

After receiving his Ph.D., Steve Bourgault started a postdoctoral training at the Department of Chemistry of The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA, USA) under the supervision of Pr Jeffery W. Kelly, a world-leader in the field of protein misfolding diseases. His research work focused on the biochemical mechanism of transthyretin amyloidoses, which are an important class of senile and/or familial protein misfolding disorders.  In 2012, Dr Bourgault moved back to Montreal where he started his independent scientific career as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry of UQAM.