Dr. Witold K. Surewicz received a Ph.D. degree in Biophysics from the University of Lodz, Poland and a postdoctoral training at McMaster University, Canada (laboratory of Dr. R. Epand). From 1986 to 1994 he served as a Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario). In 1994 he relocated to the U.S.A., first to the University of Missouri (Columbia) and then to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio), where he is currently a Robert F Bennett Professor of Neurological Research and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. Dr. Surewicz’s research interests are in the area of prion diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders associated with protein misfolding, amyloids and biophysical chemistry of proteins. He has published over 180 research papers, and has served on editorial boards of a number of journals, including Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemistry, Prion, and Pathogens.