Jason C. Bartz, Ph.D. and Dr. Yuan, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
Detection of residual prions from decontaminated medical and laboratory surfaces

Location:
School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha NE

Grant Year: 2023

Ignazio Cali, PhD

Grant Title:
Investigating prion protein seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Location:
Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University

Grant Year: 2023

Dr. Thomas Cunningham

Grant Title:
Generation of Humanised STX6 Overexpression Mice to Study Prion Disease Genetic Risk and as a Model for Therapeutic Intervention

Location:
MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, London

Grant Year: 2023

Victoria Lawson, PhD

Grant Title:
Risk of cancer from reduced expression of PrPC-implications for prion disease treatment”

Location:
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Grant Year: 2023

Qiuye Li, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
“High-resolution structure determination of MM1 and MM2 sCJD prions”

Location:
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Grant Year: 2023

Satish Nemani, PhD and Valerie L Sim, MD, FRCPC

Grant Title:
Contribution of oligomeric prion populations to phenotypic heterogeneity in variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) versus silent prions

Location:
Centre for Prions, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Grant Year: 2023

Robert C.C. Mercer, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
The identification of PrPSc interaction partners and the characterization of their role in prion infection and/or propagation

Location:
Instructor, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine

Grant Year: 2023

Dr. Sarah Vascellari

Grant Title:
Development of a blood and urine prion diagnostic test for human prion diseases using the Real Time QuIC assays

Location:
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari (UniCa), Italy

Grant Year: 2023