The Eugene A. Riedel Memorial Research Grant

Contributed by: Jacqueline Riedel
This grant was established in 2018.

Research Grants Supported

Sonia Vallabh

Grant Title:
Assessing efficacy of zinc-finger repressors of prion protein as a therapeutic for prion disease

Location:
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Grant Year: 2020

Holger Wille, PhD

Grant Title:
Evaluating passive immunotherapy in prion-infected transgenic mice expressing human PrP

Location:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Grant Year: 2021

Rodrigo Morales, PhD

Grant Title:
Development of a high throughput system for screening anti-prion molecules

Location:
University of Texas, Houston, TX

Grant Year: 2022

Jaime Noguez

Grant Title:
Improving the sensitivity of CSF RT-QuIC in humans by examining cases with indeterminate results

Location:
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

Grant Year: 2022

Zerui Wang, MD, PhD and Katsumi Doh-ura, MD, PhD

Grant Title:
Assessing Prophylactic and Therapeutic Efficacy of a Cellulose Ether Compound TC-5RW on CJD

Location:
Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Grant Year: 2022

Simote Totauhelotu Foliaki, PhD

Grant Title:
Cerebral neuronal dysfunction associated with human prion diseases

Location:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

Grant Year: 2019

David A. Harris, MD. PhD

Grant Title:
“Highly Synergistic Combination Therapy for Prion Diseases”

Location:
Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine

Grant Year:
2018

Allison Kraus, PhD

Grant Title:
“Investigation of Prion Inactivation by Reactive Oxygen Species in Vivo”

Location:
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Montana

Grant Year:
2018

Sylvain Lehmann, PhD

Grant Title:
“Innovative Human 3D Neural Network Model for the Efficient Propagation of Human Prions”

Location:
Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapy, University of Montpellier, France

Grant Year:
2018

Rodrigo Morales, PhD

Grant Title:
“Systematic Evaluation of the Zoonotic Potential of Different CWD Isolates”

Location:
Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, University of Texas-Houston Medical School

Grant Year:
2018