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?