Dr. Bourgoin is a full professor at Laval University in the Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases & Microbiology. He graduated from the University Paris XI, France, and obtained PhD in Life Sciences in 1987. He completed postdoctoral training at the Rheumatology & Immunology Research Center (Québec City, Canada) and the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada) in lipid mediators of inflammation, cell signaling, and cell biology.

He became a professor at Laval University in 1992. He has received several research awards from the Arthritis Society: Postdoctoral Fellow (1988 to 1992), Senior Research Scholar (1996 to 1999), and Research Scientist (1999 to 2004). Dr. Bourgoin has been a member of the Canadian Arthritis Network (1997 to 2011) and a member of the Inflammatory Research Association. He was a member of the Grant Review Committee of the Arthritis Society of Canada (grant/fellowship), the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ-S), and several Canadian Institute for Health Research peer review panels. He has supervised 16 undergraduate students, 10 MSc students, 11 PhD students, and 10 postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Bourgoin has been the director of the microbiology-immunology program and the graduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University for ten and eight years, respectively. He is currently a member of the University Council of Laval University.

His ongoing research interests are lipid mediators of inflammation, understanding early atherosclerosis in rheumatic autoimmune diseases, and neutrophil biology. The Arthritis Society of Canada (2023-2025) and the Canadian Institute for Health Research (2024-2029) currently support his research activities. He participated in several international conferences, workshops, and schools as a section chair/co-chair/moderator or invited speaker. He is a member of the editorial boards (Biochem. Pharmacol., Cells) and served as guest Editor (J. Leukoc. Biol.) or reviewer for several scientific journals. He has published more than 115 research papers, book chapters, and reviews. His h-index is 47, according to Google Scholar. He is one of the founding members of the Neutrophil International symposium, now organized every two years in alternate between North America and European countries.