Stuart Phillips graduated with an honours B.Sc. in biochemistry from McMaster University in 1989, obtained a M.Sc. in Human Nutritional Biochemistry in 1991, also from McMaster University. He then obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Human Physiology in 1995, where he received the University’s Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award. He went on to work in Dr. Robert Wolfe’s laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Working with Dr. Wolfe he published the first data in humans that directly examined skeletal muscle protein breakdown without using catheterization. Returning to McMaster University in 1999 he accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology with a cross-appointment in Medicine. He was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 2003. He has received awards from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, being awarded their Graduate Student award in 1996 and their Young Investigator Award in 2003.