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The Bryant Welch Memorial Research Grant

Contributed by: Keith Welch and Dianne Fox-Welch
This grant was established in 2011.

Research Grants Supported

Wen-Quan Zou, M.D., Ph.D.

Grant Title:
Assessing Prions in Sporadic CJD Patients

Location:
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Grant Year:
2017

Roberto Chiesa, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
A new anti-prion compound that reduces PrPc levels and inhibits PrPsc replication. [Awaiting permission to release from Dr. Chiesa.]

Location:
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy

Grant Year: 2016

Zuzana Krejciova, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
Human stem cell derived neural models for sCJD prion propagation and drug discovery

Location:
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco

Grant Year:
2016

Wen-Quan Zou, M.D., Ph.D.

Grant Title:
Developing Therapeutics for CJD Using Patient-Specific iPSC-Derived Neurons

Location:
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

Grant Year:
2015

Joel Watts, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
Propagation of CJD Prions in Cultured Cells Expressing Bank Vole PrP

Location:
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco

Grant Year:
2012

JoaquĆ­n Castilla, Ph.D.

Grant Title:
Developing a Prion Susceptible Human Neuronal Cell Line Based on Reprogramming Fibroblasts from CJD Affected Patients

Location:
Prion Lab, Proteomic Unit, CIC bioGune, Bizkaia, Spain

Grant Year:
2011