Contributed by:
Research Grants Supported
Charles E. Mays, Ph.D., 2017
Treatment with a Non-Toxic, Self-Replicating Anti-Prion
University of Texas-Houston
Gianluigi Zanusso, M.D., Ph.D., 2017
RT-QuIC Assay on Olfactory Brushings in Asymptomatic Carriers of E200K PRNP Mutation: An Explorative Study for Establishing When a Preventative Therapy Should be Started
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Byron Caughey, Ph.D., 2016
Antisense Oligonucleotides to Delay or Prevent Onset of Prion Disease in Mice
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health
Hamilton, Montana
Emiliano Biasini, PhD, 2015
Pharmacological Chaperones for the Cellular Prion Protein
Center for Integrative Biology (CIBIO) at the University of Trento, Italy
Wen-Quan Zou, MD, PhD, 2015
Developing Therapeutics for CJD Using Patient-Specific iPSC-Derived Neurons
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio
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