Joel Watts

Joel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, and an Investigator at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Following his PhD studies with David Westaway at the University of Toronto, he conducted postdoctoral work on prions and prion-like protein aggregates in the lab of Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner at the University of California San Francisco. Joel is currently the Canada Research Chair in Protein Misfolding Disorders.