Principal Investigator
NIAID, NIH
Hamilton, Montana
Dr. Cathryn Haigh (Ph.D) is a pricipal investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), based in the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton Montana. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Bath (UK). Her thesis focused on the cellular function of the prion protein and genetic control of its expression.
In July 2006, she relocated to The University of Melbourne (Australia) as a senior research officer in the Department of Pathology to continue her research into prion diseases. She subsequently held the positions of honorary research fellow at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria (Australia), senior research fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne (Australia), senior scientist for the Australian National CJD Registry, and additionally managed the prion containment facility within the Melbourne Brain Centre.
In 2017, Dr. Haigh was recruited to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton (MT) and established the Prion Cell Biology Unit of which she is currently the chief.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM MT