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The "Mercies in Disguise Research Grant, in Honor of the Baxley Family"

Contributed by: 

Kathy Baxley and Family


This grant was established in 2018.

Research Grants Supported

Joaquín Castilla, PhD, 2022
Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
"Development and characterization of the fastest animal model able to propagate GSS prions faithfully"

Steven E. Arnold, MD, 2019
Assessing long-term stability of cerebrospinal fluid PrP levels in genetic prion disease mutation carriers
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; and Translational Neurology Head of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Leonardo Cortez, Ph.D., 2018
Isolation and Strain-Specific Characterization of Pathogenic CJD Prion Particles
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada