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, Ph.D.

Grant Title: Characterization of synaptic abnormalities in iPSC-derived neurons from E200K carriers
Location: Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Grant Year: 2025
Gianluigi Zanusso, MD, PhD

Grant Title: Multi-center assessment of olfactory swab procedure performed by non-otolaryngologists for improving and simplifying human prion disease diagnosis
Location: Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Grant Year: 2025
Joel Watts, PhD

Grant Title: Engineered biosensors for improved prion detection
Location: Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Grant Year: 2025
Jakub Soukup, PhD

Grant Title: Higher-resolution visualization of prion fibrils in neurons and extracellular vesicles using state-of-the-art Cryo-TEM and FIB-SEM imaging
Location: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH
Grant Year: 2025
Nina Oberbeck, PhD, Senior Director of Translational Sciences

Grant Title: Assessing efficacy of a PrP-lowering Molecular Gate as a therapeutic for prion disease
Location: Gate Bioscience
Grant Year: 2025
Dr. Szymon W. Manka

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