/sent on behalf of Dr. Stephanie Booth

Wednesday, October 12, 2016
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Room 540B, Basic Medical Sciences

DR. VALERIE SIM
Associate Professor
Division of Neurology
Department of Medicine
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases
University of Alberta

“Targeting prion disease with "3C" combination therapy”

Bio:
Dr. Valerie Sim self-identifies as a scientist who practices medicine
to support her music habit. By day she is a prion scientist at the
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of
Alberta and a clinical neurologist consultant for rapidly progressive
dementia cases locally and throughout Canada. By night she is a
violinist and fiddler.

After her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of
Calgary and her neurology residency at University of Ottawa, Dr. Sim
completed a post-doctoral fellowship in prion disease research at
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH, Montana, under the supervision of
Dr. Byron Caughey. She joined the University of Alberta Division of
Neurology in 2009 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure
in July, 2016.

In her research lab, Dr. Sim grows prion-infected brain slices in a
dish in order to ask: 1) how a prion’s size and shape can influence
patterns of disease and risks of transmission; and 2) how targeting
multiple steps along the disease pathway might produce more effective
treatments. From protein biochemistry to animal treatment experiments,
her research publications have received international media attention.
She also promotes science communication, and regularly presents the
science of prion disease to diverse communities across Alberta,
Canada.

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Kelly Jorundson
Administrative Manager
Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Albrechtsen Research Centre, St. Boniface Hospital

& Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba

Room R4046 - 351 Taché  Avenue
Winnipeg, MB  R2H 2A6  CANADA

Tel: 204.235.3939  | Fax: 204.237.4092
Email:  kjorund@sbrc.ca OR Kelly.Jorundson@umanitoba.ca