Simon Sharpe
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Simon Sharpe obtained his BSc in Cell Biology and Biochemistry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1997. After obtaining a PhD from the biochemistry department of the University of Western Ontario in 2002, he joined Robert Tycko’s group at the NIH as a postdoctoral fellow – using solid state NMR to determine the structures of peptide-antibody complex and integral membrane proteins involved in the pathogenesis of HIV-1. Dr. Sharpe joined the program in Molecular Structure and Function at The Hospital for Sick Children and the Department of Biochemistry in 2006, where his research interests include self-assembling proteins (amyloid formation in degenerative diseases, elastomeric proteins, and others), protein-membrane interactions and integral membrane proteins.
Research Interest
Molecular-Level Study of Macromolecular Assemblies in Human Health and Disease
