2015 Presentations

FRIDAY


Brian Appleby, MD

Prion Disease Basics





SATURDAY


Byron Caughey, PhD

Progress in Detecting Prions and Diagnosing Prion Diseases
Click here to watch Dr. Caughey's presentation at the 2015 CJD Foundation Family Conference in Washington, D.C.






Jean-Philippe Deslys, MD, PhD

Human Mini-brains as a New Platform to Identify and Validate Pharmaceutical Compounds for the Treatment of CJD
Click here to watch Dr. Deslys's presentation at the 2015 CJD Foundation Family Conference in Washington, D.C.





Julie Moreno, PhD

The Role of Cellular Chaperones and the Unfolded Protein Response in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Syndrome
Click here to watch Dr. Moreno's presentation at the 2015 CJD Foundation Family Conference in Washington, D.C.




Christina Sigurdson, DVM, PhD

Mechanisms of Selective Cell Vulnerability in Human Prion Disease







Wenquan Zou, MD, PhD

Developing Therapeutics for CJD Using Patient-Specific iPSC-Derived Neurons





Emiliano Biasini, PhD

Pharmacological Chaperones for the Cellular Prion Protein
Click here to watch Dr. Biasini's presentation at the 2015 CJD Foundation Family Conference in Washington, D.C.






SUNDAY


Lori Nusbaum, CJD Foundation

Questionnaire Report








Jiri Safar, MD, PhD

New Goals and Organizational Structure of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC)




Ryan Maddox, PhD
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report: Prion Activities at the CDC

Kevin Keough, PhD, FCAHS
Alberta Prion Research Institute (APRI) Report


Bradley Kalinsky, MD

After IVF with PGD








Amanda Baxley Kalinsky, RN, BSN

Where Do We Go From Here?