Roy Duncan, PhD

SCIENTIFIC FOUNDER

Dr. Roy Duncan, Professor and Killam Chair at Dalhousie University, is an internationally renowned expert on viral fusion proteins. His research group discovered the reovirus fusion-associated small transmembrane (FAST) proteins, a novel family of virus-encoded fusogens that mediate cell-cell membrane fusion. Dr. Duncan is also the founder and chief executive officer of Fusogenix Inc. Roy Duncan has published extensively on protein trafficking, unconventional secretion pathways, cancer cell migration, cell-cell fusion mechanisms, and FAST proteins. Dr. Duncan received his Ph.D. from Guelph University.