2019 Presentations
FRIDAY SESSIONS:
| Brian Appleby, MD, Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) Prion Disease Basics |
| Kevin Keough, Executive Director, Alberta Prion Research Institute Prion Research Basics |
| Katrina Hallmark, PsyD, Neuropsychologist Danielle Jordan, Autopsy Program Manager, NPDPSC Bereavement Workshop |
SATURDAY SESSIONS:
| Richard Knight, BA, BM BCh, FRCP(E), Chair, Management Committee, the UK CJD Support Network Keynote: Prion Diseases, An Overview |
| Simote Totauhelotu Foliaki, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Cerebral Neuronal Dysfunction associated with Human Prion Diseases |
| Graham S. Jackson, PhD, Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Development of a Quantitative, Real-time Protein-Misfolding by Cyclic Amplification (PMCA) Reaction |
| Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD, Center for Regenerative Medicine/Boston University School of Medicine Modeling Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Using Human iPSC-derived Neurons |
| Emmanuelle Vire, PhD, Medical Research Council Prion Unit at University College London Investigating the Relevance of Blood DNA Methylation Signals for Disease Management in CJD |
| Kevin Keough, PhD, FCAHS, Executive Director, APRI Alberta Prion Research Institute (APRI) Report |
| Miriam Warren, Histologist, Case Western Reserve University Crissy Moskal, Administrative Manager Danielle Jordan, Autopsy Program Manager National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Update |
| Ryan Maddox, PhD, Epidemiologist, Prion and Public Health Office Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology The 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Report |
SUNDAY SESSIONS:
| Janine Kock & Brian Appleby, CJD Foundation Grants Committee, Members, CJD Foundation Board of Directors CJD Foundation Grants Program |
| Steven E. Arnold, MD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Assessing Long-Term Stability of Cerebrospinal Fluid PrP Levels in Genetic Prion Disease Mutation Carriers |
| Roberto Chiesa, PhD, Laboratory of Prion Neurobiology, Department of Neuroscience Nanoparticle-Mediated Brain Delivery of a Tetracationic Porphyrin with Potent Antiprion Activities |
| Jiyan Ma, PhD, Professor, Center for Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Institute Determining the Therapeutic Potential of Anti-PrP Nanobody |