Brian Appleby, MD, Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) Watch Presentation: Prion Disease Basics – Clinical |
Joel Watts, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto Watch Presentation: Prion Disease Basics – Research |
Simon Mead, BM BCh, FRCP, PhD, Clinical Professor, MRC Prion Unit at UC London, Institute of Prion Diseases, London, England Watch Keynote Address in Honor of Dr. Pierluigi Gambetti: Can Genetics Help in the Fight Against CJD? |
Dr. Abigail Nathanson, LCSW, APHSW–C, ACS Watch Presentation: Bereavement Workshop |
Stuart Yaffa, Chair, CJD Foundation Board of Directors Patricia McGill, Treasurer, CJD Foundation Board of Directors Watch Presentation: CJD Foundation Update |
Don Friedman, Author, Still Phyllis David Langan, Author, All is Well: Living Through Losing One You Love David Oliver, Reporter, USA Today Rosemary Vaswani, Author, Don’t Fade Away Starlight, and Poet, @rosepoemsthebitterandthesweet Instagram Poetry Series Watch Presentation: CJD Foundation Family Panel – “Sharing My CJD Story In Art and Media” |
Ryan Maddox, PhD, Epidemiologist, Prion and Public Health Office Division of High–Consequence Pathogens and Pathology Watch Presentation: The 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report |
Brian Appleby, MD, Katie Glisic, MA, Administrative Lead, Danielle Jordan, Autopsy Program Manager, Lateefa Russell, Histologist, and Tatiana Weaver, MEd, MLS (ASCP), CPHQ, Laboratory Manager Watch Presentation: National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Panel |
Brian Appleby, MD Watch Presentation: Drug Development |
Sonia Vallabh, PhD, Senior Group Leader, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA Watch Presentation: Drug Development |
Moderator: Joel Watts, PhD, Jason C. Bartz, PhD, Professor Parmjit Jat, Qiuye Li, PhD, (CJDF Fellowship), Robert C.C. Mercer, PhD, and Valerie L. Sim, MD, FRCPC Watch Presentation: CJD Foundation Research Grant Recipient Report Panel A |
Moderator: Richard Knight, BA, BM BCh, FRCP(E), Dr. Thomas Cunningham, Victoria Lawson, PhD, Ignazio Cali, PhD, and Dr. Sarah Vascellari Watch Presentation: CJD Foundation Research Grant Recipient Report Panel B |
Jason C. Bartz, PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE “Detection of residual prions from decontaminated medical and laboratory surfaces” |
Professor Parmjit Jat, MRC Prion Unit at UC London, Institute of Prion Diseases, London, England “Elucidating the factors required for propagating human CJD prions” |
Qiuye Li, PhD, (CJDF Fellowship), Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH “High-resolution structure determination of MM1 and MM2 sCJD prions” |
Robert C.C. Mercer, PhD, Instructor, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA “The identification of PrPSc interaction partners and the characterization of their role in prion infection and/or propagation” |
Valerie L. Sim, MD, FRCPC, Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada “Contribution of oligomeric prion populations to phenotypic heterogeneity in variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) versus silent prions” |
Dr. Thomas Cunningham, MRC Prion Unit at UC London, Institute of Prion Diseases, London, England “Generation of humanised STX6 overexpression mice to study prion disease genetic risk and as a model for therapeutic intervention” |
Victoria Lawson, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia “Risk of cancer from reduced expression of PrPC-implications for prion disease treatment” |
Ignazio Cali, PhD, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH “Investigating prion protein seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy” |
Dr. Sarah Vascellari, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari (UniCa), Cagliari, Italy “Development of a blood and urine prion diagnostic test for human prion diseases using the Real Time QuIC assays” |
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