
Sheila Healy, PhD
CISAC Fellow (former)
CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall
Stanford CA 94305-6165
Sheila Healy was a 2004-2005 CISAC science fellow. She is analyzing USDA policy addressing Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. She recently finished a postdoctoral appointment in Stanley Prusiner's laboratory in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. There she studied the molecular and structural requirements for the conversion of cellular prion protein to its pathogenic form, the agent that causes BSE. She holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology from the University of Arizona.



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