Remembering Bill Costerton, a biofilm research pioneer

May 29, 2012

Bill Costerton, an award-winning Canadian microbiologist who pioneered the understanding of bacterial biofilms and a professor at the University of Calgary for many years, passed away at his home on May 12. He was 77.

After Costerton’s postdoctoral training at Cambridge University, his research first took him to McGill University and then Calgary, where his positions included National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Industrial Research chair and research professor with the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority. These allowed him to focus on research into bacterial biofilms.

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