Stephen Michnick received his B. Sc. and Ph. D. from the University of Toronto with
Jeremy P. Carver and did postdoctoral training at the Department of Chemistry, Harvard
University with Profs. Stuart Schreiber and Martin Karplus (Nobel Prize, chemistry,
2013). He is presently a full professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Université
de Montréal and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry of the UK since 2007.
Prof. Michnick trained principally as a biophysical chemist, studying structures and
binding of complex cell surface carbohydrate- and protein-protein interactions and
mechanism of protein folding. At the heart of all of his work, protein chemistry remains
central, but he has developed an eclectic and diverse research program aimed at
studying the organization and dynamics of biochemical networks in living cells and
how these networks compute cell-fate decisions. Dr. Michnick has received several
honors, including in addition to Tier 1 and 2 Canada Research Chairs, a Burroughs-
Wellcome New Investigator and Medical Research Council of Canada Scientist Awards.
He was also an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program in
Molecular Evolution. Prof. Michnick manages an active and diverse research program
and has received funding through MRC Canada, CIHR, NSERC, FRSQ, HFSP, the
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, CFI, Canada Research Chairs, and a number of other
agencies and private companies.