Marc Servant, PhD. Pharmacology: Over fifteen years of expertise and leadership in academic research where he successfully carried out basic and translational research programs aiming at understanding, proposing and testing new therapeutics avenues in the context of chronic inflammatory diseases. His programs of research include target identification and validation studies where his group focus its attention on enzymes believed to play key roles in uncontrolled low-grade inflammatory reactions and the etiology of cardiovascular, neoplastic and autoimmune diseases. Since 2010, Dr. Servant is the recipient of the Canada Research Chair in Inflammatory Response Signaling; http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=2696).