Governing Council Member

Dr. Paul KubesDr. Paul Kubes
Professor, Faculty of Medicine
University of Calgary

Paul Kubes, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine and Founding Director of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the university. He also holds a Canada Research Chair in Leukocyte Recruitment in inflammatory disease.

Paul Kubes has been named the Canada's Health Researcher of the Year by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for his work in examining the role that white blood cells play in preventing and reversing sepsis – a potentially fatal condition in which the blood becomes infected by harmful bacteria. 

Paul Kubes began his research as a graduate student at Queen's University in 1984 in the area of cardiovascular physiology. In 1988 he moved to Louisiana State University (LSU) Medical Center to start a post-doctoral fellowship trying to understand why there is excessive inflammation associated with heart attacks and strokes.  He took a position as Assistant Professor in 1991 at the University of Calgary and is presently a full professor at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine.  He sits on national and international grant panels, and is a board member of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. 

In recognition of his research contributions Dr. Kubes has also received the Faculty of Medicine Smith Distinguished Achievement Award for Senior Faculty (2001, 2003), the American Physiological Society, Henry Pickering Bowditch Lectureship (2003), the Alberta Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Leadership in Science (2005).

Since the beginning of his independent research career Dr. Kubes has been continuously supported in his research endeavours by the CIHR, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, and from numerous societies including the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of Canada, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, and Bayer Canadian Blood Services/CIHR Partnership Fund. 

He presently holds eight peer-reviewed grants, four of which are CIHR grants. He is the principal grant holder of a CIHR Group Grant and a CIHR Training Program. Kubes is also the recipient of two Canadian Foundation of Innovation Grants.