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U of T's Peter St George-Hyslop wins leading Alzheimer’s research prize
Peter St George-Hyslop, one of the world’s top neurodegenerative disease researchers, has won the 2017 Ryman Prize in recognition of his more than 30 years of groundbreaking research into the causes of Alzheimer’s disease.
The prize was awarded by an international jury of academic researchers and announced Aug. 9 by New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English at a ceremony in Wellington, New Zealand.
The honour “signifies a sea-change in how society perceives disorders affecting the health and well-being of their older members,” said St George-Hyslop, director of the Faculty of Medicine’s Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases. “It signals a growing understanding of the urgency of getting to grips with these increasingly common, devastating conditions that impact not only those individuals affected by them but also their family and their caregivers, and the state in w
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Peter Henry St. George-Hyslop Medicine
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Dr. St. George-Hyslop, internationally acclaimed geneticist and physician, received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 1976. Further, he did post-graduate work in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Toronto. He conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School where he also became an instructor in molecular genetics and neurology from 1987 to 1991. In 1991, he was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and was promoted to Professor in 1996. He became a Director of the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases in 1995. St George-Hyslop is also a practicing neurologist and attends in the ward at the University Health Network teaching hospitals.
Dr. St George-Hyslop has published more than 200 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, and Science; he is one of the m
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Peter St George-Hyslop
Professor Peter St George-Hyslop OC FRS FRSC FRCPC FMedSci | |
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| Born | Peter Henry St George-Hyslop (1953-07-10) 10 July 1953 (age 71) |
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