Dr. Andrea LeBlanc

Senior Investigator, Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute, James McGill Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Prion disease, Alzheimer disease, Neurodegenerative, Neurology

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Biography

Dr. Andréa C. LeBlanc is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a researcher at the Bloomfield Center for Research in Aging at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montreal. LeBlanc is also an Associate Member in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill. She received a Ph.D from the Department of Biochemistry at Dalhousie University and did her post-doctoral training in the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota. LeBlanc initiated her studies on Alzheimer and prion diseases as an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland from 1989 to 1993.

Expertise

  • Neurology
  • Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Prion disease