David Thomas (Canadian scientist)

David Y. Thomas is a Canadian biochemist. He is Chair of Biochemistry at McGill University. His research interests include cell signaling pathways and their role in infectious diseases and molecular chaperone systems in the endoplasmic reticulum.^[1]

David Thomas
Academic background
Education	PhD, 1970, University College London
Academic work
Institutions	McGill University

Career

Thomas completed his PhD in 1970 at University College London.^[1] In the 1990s, Thomas and John J. M. Bergeron discovered calnexin, an integral protein of the endoplasmic reticulum.^[2][3] In 1998, Thomas was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[4]

In 2015, Thomas was renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics.^[5]