CORNWALL, Ontario – Science and Nature on Tap at Schnitzels will explore the work of a South Glengarry medical research scientist this evening (Wednesday, Feb. 3).
For the last 13 years, Dr. Pearl Campbell has served as director of Stem Core Laboratories at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
She has spent a career working to combat devastating diseases through scientific investigation.
“The use of stem cells for basic discovery and in regenerative therapy presents an opportunity to transform how medicine is practiced and for pharmaceutical intervention,” said Campbell.
At the free speaker series session, she will be discussing how this modern revolution in genetics is being used to advance research into disease and the personalization of medicine.
Karen Douglass-Cooper, the river institute’s communications director, says the event’s guest speaker is using the key of the human genome to unlock the mystery surrounding some of our most challenging diseases.
“Her research revolves around the concept that stem cell dysfunction lies at the very heart of today’s most devastating illnesses such as cancer, type I diabetes, cardiac disease, Parkinson’s, Muscular Dystrophy, and Alzheimer’s” said Douglass-Cooper.
Campbell earned her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine from the Ottawa University.
Campbell has also worked at the renowned John Hopkins School of Medicine serving as a senior research technician, and graduated from the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland with a MS in Biotechnology.
This free session of Science and Nature on Tap at Schnitzels, hosted by the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences, is held at Schnitzels European Flavours in downtown Cornwall, but spaces are limited.
For more information or to reserve a seat, contact 613-936-6620 or e-mail kcooper@riverinstitute.ca or visit www.riverinstitute.ca.
