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Established in 2015
Grant Title:
Validation of a non-invasive diagnostic test for prion diseases using tear fluid
Location:
Dementia Research Unit, Dept. of Neurology in Göttingen, National Reference Center for TSE and German Center for Neuro-degenerative diseases, Germany
Grant Year: 2024
Grant Title:
Bridging the pre-clinical gap for a small brain-penetrant molecule that reduces PrPC levels
Location:
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto
Grant Year: 2024
Grant Title:
Understanding the molecular mechanism of spontaneous prion emergence in knock-in mouse models
Location:
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto
Grant Year: 2024
Grant Title:
Development of ADAM8-based Gene Therapy for CJD
Location:
NPDPSC, Case Western Reserve University
Grant Year: 2024
Grant Title:
Generating cerebral organoids from donors with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Location:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana
Grant Year: 2024
Grant Title:
Exploring the efficacy of dominant negative protein-based gene therapy for different prion diseases: in vivo proof-of-concept study
Location:
Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain
Grant Year: 2024
Grant Title:
Investigation of Glycoprotein Nonmetastatic Melanoma protein B (GPNMB) as potential therapeutic target in Prion Diseases
Location:
University of Zurich
Grant Year: 2024
Moorpark, California
Rosemary Vaswani is a poet and wrote several poems about CJD in memory of her husband. Follow her on Instagram @rosepoemsthebitterandthesweet.
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