Jeanne Tudisco

March 14, 1957 – May 4, 2015
Paulette Wilson

Back to Quilt A loving wife, mother, and Yiayia. We think about you every day, and we know where you are. We love you.
Melissa Joyce Gillette Wilt

December 17, 1955 – Feb. 3, 2006
Gerard “Jerry” Zajac

Back to Quilt Jerry passed away at his home in Tampa on November 13, 2016. Jerry was a man who loved people; he listened, talked, laughed and shared his experience with care and humor. Jerry firmly believed “if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right” in all aspects of his life – work […]
Barbara Zane

Back to Quilt In loving memory of Barbara Zane, a special sister and friend who died of CJD on 5/10/06. She is sorely missed. “What is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?Only when you drink from the river […]
Nicholas J. Zazzera Sr.

Back to Quilt There are many ways of honoring someone. Nicholas J. Zazzera Sr. was someone who deserved to be honored. There is a tradition called “the money dance,” an event that occurs at many wedding receptions in various cultures. During this dance, guests pay to dance briefly with the bride. Often guests are told […]
Candace Mathiason, PhD

Grant Title:
“Use of Blood-borne Prion Amplification Assays for the Detection of Human Prion Diseases and Biomarker Assessment”
Location:
Prion Research Center, Colorado State University
Grant Year:
2020
Roberto Chiesa, PhD

Grant Title:
“Nanoparticle-mediated brain delivery of a tetracationic porphyrin with potent anti-prion activities”
Location:
Laboratory of Prion Neurobiology, Department of Neuroscience, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy
Grant Year: 2019
Simote Totauhelotu Foliaki, PhD

Grant Title:
Cerebral neuronal dysfunction associated with human prion diseases
Location:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Grant Year: 2019
Dr. Graham S. Jackson

Grant Title: Development of a quantitative, real-time Protein-Misfolding by Cyclic Amplification (PMCA) reaction
Location: Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit at University College London
Grant Year: 2019