Dr. Chris Upton

A Professor at the University of Victoria who has worked for more than 30 years in Virology, specializing in the comparative genomics of large viruses and the development of databases and software tools for their analysis.

Building tools for use by virologists and immunologists has been a priority. He has also worked extensively on the characterization of multiple virulence factors in poxviruses that function through immunomodulatory processes and was part of the team that sequenced and annotated the first SARS-1 genome in 2003.