The Carole Meltzner Memorial Grant

Contributed by:the CAS Foundation

Established in 2025

Research Grants Supported

Arielle Hay, PhD

Grant Title:
Generating cerebral organoids from donors with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Location:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana

Grant Year: 2024

Alyssa Block, PhD

Grant Title: Refined transgenetic approaches to investigate selective adaptation of human prions during intracranial and peripheral transmissions

Location: Prion Research Center, Colorado State University

Grant Year: 2025

Jose Andres Alepuz Guillen, PhD

Grant Title: Characterization of synaptic abnormalities in iPSC-derived neurons from E200K carriers

Location: Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Grant Year: 2025