Dr. Borchers received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Konstanz, Germany. After his post‐doctoral training and employment as a staff scientist at NIEHS/NIH/RTP, NC and he was the director of the Duke – UNC Proteomics Facility and held a faculty position at UNC Medical School in Chapel Hill, NC (2001‐ 2006). Since then Dr. Borchers is Associate Professor at University of Victoria (UVic), Canada and the Director of the UVic – Genome Proteomics Centre. His research is centred around the improvement, development and application of proteomics technologies with major focus on techniques for quantitative targeted proteomics for clinical diagnostics.