Sina obtained his bachelor’s degree from McMaster University in Canada and his PhD in biochemistry from Duke University. Prior to coming to Rochester, Sina held positions as a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Sina’s research seeks to understand the balance between protein expression, folding, and degradation within cells and how this homeostasis is affected by disease. A central focus of Sina’s research are prion diseases—a group of neurodegenerative disorders in mammals, which include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease).