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Dr. Christoph Borchers

Academic title(s): 

Professor - Department of Oncology

Associate Member - Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine

Dr. Christoph Borchers
Contact Information
Address: 

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Jewish General Hospital
3755 Côte Ste-Catherine Road,
Montreal, Qc, H3T 1E2

Phone: 
(514)340-8222 ext.7886
Email address: 
christoph.borchers [at] mcgill.ca
Current research: 

For many years, my research has focused on two main research areas: mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics and structural proteomics. Quantitative proteomics has innumerable medical applications (e.g., diagnostics for diseases including cancer and heart disease), and includes biomarker discovery and quantitation, and translation of accurate quantitative assays into the clinic. Structural proteomics includes the study of protein folding and misfolding, which is thought to play a role in diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, cystic fibrosis, and type-2 diabetes. The proteins involved in these diseases are therefore potential targets for drugs that could prevent or even reverse this misfolding.

Projects: 
  1. Experimental and modeling studies of protein misfolding.
  2. Proteomic and metabolomic studies to determine the causes of "long COVID".
  3. Quantitation of proteins and their PTMs in cancer-related signalling pathways for improved diagnostics via personalized medicine.
Selected publications: 

Research areas: 
Aging
Bioinformatics
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Degenerative diseases
Drug discovery/ Therapeutics
Geriatrics
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Muscle
Neuroscience
Renal diseases
Respiratory diseases
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