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Prion Institute Scholars
This initiative supports top researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who demonstrate a commitment to scientific excellence.
Dr. David Westaway
David Westaway is a molecular biologist with a special interest in the use of genetically engineered mice to recreate and understand human neurological disorders. He earned a first-class degree in Biochemistry from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of London, in England. He completed postdoctoral training at the University of California with Nobel Laureates Professors Harold E. Varmus and Stanley B. Prusiner. With Dr. Prusiner, he helped to define the molecular biology of prion diseases.
Before becoming Director of the Alberta Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta, Dr. Westaway held a full Professorship in the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of Toronto. There he focused on the cellular prion protein and two other related proteins, as well as creating lab models of Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Westaway has won a number of awards for his research, including a Premier's Research Excellence Award, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator award, and a Zenith Scholar award from the Alzheimer's Association (USA).
Dr. Stefanie Czub
Stefanie Czub is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, with a specialty in neuropathology and virology. She earned her degrees from the Veterinary College of the Free University in Berlin, Germany, with a research focus on viral infections of the central nervous system. Dr. Czub completed her postdoctoral studies at the National Institute of Health at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana, USA.
Dr. Czub heads the pathology, virology, and wildlife disease units a the CFIA lab in Lethbridge, which has Canadian National Reference Laboratory status and World Organization for Animal Health Reference Laboratory status for BSE. Prior to this, Dr. Czub was a senior research scientist at the Pathology Institute of the Julius-Maximilians University in Wuerzburg, Germany, and was most recently at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Dr. Czub is a member of the TSE Expert Advisory Group, the Canadian Association of Veterinary Pathologists, the College of Veterinarians of Ontario and adjunct professor in the faculties of Veterinary Medicine at Western College in Saskatoon and the University of Calgary.
