The Joel Watts Lab | Prion Research at the University of Toronto, The Watts Lab studies the pathobiology of neurodegenerative diseases of ageing, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In these diseases, misfolding and subsequent aggregation of proteins or peptides into β-sheet-enriched forms initiates a cascade of events that ultimately leads to neurological dysfunction and death of neurons or glial cells in the brain. There….