John J.M. Bergeron McGill University, Canada E-mail : john.bergeron@mcgill.ca Web-site :

Dr. J.J.M. Bergeron is the Chair of the HUPO Initiatives. He is a Robert Reford Professor and Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and an editor of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics and to Journal of Biological Chemistry.

He is considered one of Canada’s leading cell biologists, particularly in the areas of protein maturation, trafficking and function. He uncovered calnexin and established its significance as a molecular chaperone which uses a sugar based code to deduce the energetics of protein folding.

Dr. Bergeron is the Founder, Scientific Advisor and past CSO to Caprion Pharmaceuticals. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the McLaughlin Gold Medal from this Society for important research of sustained excellence in any branch of medical sciences, recipient at McGill of the David L. Thomson Lecture, the Theo Hoffmann Biochemistry Lecture from the University of Toronto, and the Nan Qiang Lecture from Xiamen University in China.

He was the Chair of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of past HUPO World Congresses, a member of its council and past Co-Chair of its International Liver Proteome Project, Chair of the Mouse Models of Human Disease efforts in proteomics and President of Human Proteome Organisation from 2003-2006. He is presently the chair of the HUPO Initiatives whose mission is to accelerate the successful application of proteomics to the solution of important biomedical problems.