Leadership

Meet the people who support families affected by prion disease.

Board of Directors

Debbie Yobs

President and Executive Director

Morris Plains, New Jersey

Brian Appleby, MD

Medical Director

Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
Cleveland, Ohio

Scientific Advisory Committee

Brian Appleby, MD

Medical Director

Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
Cleveland, Ohio

Byron Caughey, PhD

Chief, TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section Senior Investigator, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH

Hamilton, Montana

Glenn Telling, PhD

Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology

Director, Prion Research Center, Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO

Jason C. Bartz, PhD

Chair and Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine

Omaha, NE

Joel Watts, PhD

Associate Professor Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Staff

Debbie Yobs

President and Executive Director

Morris Plains, New Jersey