PhD, MBA

UVIC Genome BC Proteomics Centre, UVIC

David Schibli

After graduating from the University of Victoria with a BSc from the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, David went on to obtain his PhD from the University of Calgary in Protein Biochemistry and undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble, France. Following this, he was a Project Manager at the University of Western Ontario, establishing a new high-throughput proteomics facility. David then went on to obtain his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, with a specialty in Health Sciences. Since then, David worked at the Ontario Genomics Institute, where he managed the progress and financial performance of large-scale research projects. Following his time at OGI, David was the General Manager of BIG Funding Inc. (BFI), a business consulting firm that supports companies in accessing government funding programs.

David joined the Uvic-Genome BC Proteomics Centre David joined the Uvic-Genome BC Proteomics Centre (PC) as the Associate Director in 2015, where he is responsible for the oversight of the Centre’s operations, administration and finance. The PC has been providing analytical proteomic and metabolomic services to academic, industrial and government laboratories for over 30 years. The PC has performed proteomics and metabolomics services for more than 2,000 research projects in health, agriculture, energy, environment and forestry. The Centre’s technology development program supports service and collaborative research projects in the application and development of novel methods in the areas of protein and metabolite biomarker identification, protein characterization, as well as bioinformatics. David has been an avid supporter of the local life sciences community and joined Vancouver Island Life Sciences Association (VILS) as a board member in September, 2018.