Kris Gevaert

Prof. dr. Gevaert obtained his PhD in Biotechnology in 2000 at Ghent University (Belgium). He was a post-doctoral fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium) until 2006 and was appointed Professor in Functional Proteomics at Ghent University in 2004. Since 2005 he heads the Functional Proteomics group of the VIB Department of Medical Protein Research and also the VIB Proteomics Expertise Centre (www.vib.be/pec). In 2010 he was appointed Full Professor at Ghent University and is currently Associate Director of the VIB Department of Medical Protein Research. The Gevaert lab focuses on the introduction of proteomic technologies to address challenging questions in life sciences. Gevaert and his team try to understand why proteins are N-terminally acetylated, study the function of N-terminal proteoforms, and develop technologies to identify cytolysis proteins as disease proxies.