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Szymon W. Manka, PhD

Grant Title: Engineering human cells to propagate fluorescent prions for live monitoring of prion infection and high-resolution in situ prion structure determination

Location: Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease,
Synthetic and Structural Biology Section

Grant Year: 2025

Dr. Pei Ying Lee

Grant Title: Assessing retinal function as a potential early biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

Location: Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Grant Year: 2025

Ignazio Cali, PhD

Grant Title: Investigating prion protein seeding activity in non-prion disease dementia

Location: Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Kore of Enna, Italy; Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU); Associate Director at National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC), Cleveland, OH

Grant Year: 2025

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Rosemary Vaswani is a poet and wrote several poems about CJD in memory of her husband. Follow her on Instagram @rosepoemsthebitterandthesweet.

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