Patrice Smith

Patrice Smith is a Professor in the Neuroscience department at Carleton University. Their research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying central nervous system repair and neurodegeneration. Key interests include axon regeneration failure in the mature CNS and mechanisms of neuronal cell death in Parkinson’s disease and traumatic brain injury.

• Education: Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, Post-doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University
• Labs: Smith Lab, investigating cytokine effects on neurite growth and neuroprotective pharmacological agents

Selected publications explore calpain-cdk5 pathways in dopaminergic neuron death, BAG5’s role in parkin inhibition, and cdk5’s mediation of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s models. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but research contributions are significant in neurodegenerative disease mechanisms.