Jamie Scott BA, PhD, MD

Dr. Scott is a Professor with a Joint Appointment between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Dr. Scott received her PhD for work on the germline immunoglobulin V genes. She attended medical school with the goal of becoming an academic biomedical researcher. Her postdoctoral research included projects to analyze the spectra of mutational hot-spots (W.G. Thilly), the development of the first phage-displayed peptide libraries and their use in analyzing antibody specificity (G.P. Smith) and in developing peptide mimics of a discontinuous protein epitope (E.D. Getzoff & J.A. Tainer).
She began working at SFU in 1993 as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry and Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at SFU. (The Institute became a Department in SFU's Faculty of Science in 2001.) Dr. Scott was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and to Professor in 2002. In 2004, Dr. Scott began a joint appointment in the newly-formed Faculty of Health Sciences, as one of its founding faculty members. That year, she was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Immunity.