Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation

This grant was established in 2022.

Research Grants Supported

Professor Parmjit Jat, Lecturer Melissa L.D. Rayner, and Simon Mead, PhD, 2023
MMRC Prion at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases
​"Elucidating the factors required for propagating human CJD prions"

Dr. Thomas Cunningham, 2023
MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases
"Generation of Humanised STX6 Overexpression Mice to Study Prion Disease Genetic Risk and as a Model for Therapeutic Intervention"

Dr. Hermann Clemens Altmeppen, 2022
University Medical Center Hamburg
"Enzymatic PrP shedding in humans: Biomarker potential and therapeutic target"