Debbie Yobs
President and Executive Director
Morris Plains, New Jersey
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- Supporting Families Affected by Prion Disease
President and Executive Director
Morris Plains, New Jersey
Grant Title: Hypomorphic low PrP expressing mice as models for prion replication and native function
Location: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: Using a Kuru-Protective PrP Mutation as a Novel Prion Therapy
Location: Edgar Minas Housepian Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Boston University/Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: Early vs late intervention: PrP-lowering therapy stage-dependent outcomes in sCJD and GSS mouse models
Location: Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain
Grant Year: 2026
Franklin, MA
Bloomington, IN
Donald Friedman shares the story of caring for his sister, Phyllis, in Still Phyllis: A Caregiver’s Memoir of Dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.