At-Large Member

Professor, University of Toronto.

Dr. Trevor Moraes is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (Canada), where he holds a Canada Research Chair in the Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins. Research in the Moraes lab focuses on the structural and functional characterization of surface proteins, particularly those that are involved in immune evasion or protein and ion translocation across bacterial membranes. As a biochemist and a microbiologist, the overarching goal of his research program is to understand the molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis with the view of discovering new targets for antibiotics or vaccines. Dr. Moraes is the PI of the Protein Core within the International Center for Gonococcal Vaccine Innovation (ICGVI) supported by NIH in collaboration with Cornelissen, Gray-Owen, Schryvers, Seib, Allen, Staats and Corneli. He is also a PI of CIHR -funded projects on lipoprotein structure, function and biogenesis and Co-PI on NIH funded projects on Transferrin binding protein (Tbp) based vaccines.