2015 Presentations - CJD Foundation

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report: Prion Activities at the CDC

Bradley Kalinsky, MD

After IVF with PGD

Amanda Baxley Kalinsky, RN, BSN

Where Do We Go From Here?

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