The Michael H. Cole Memorial Research Grant

Contributed by: Jeanne Cole

Established in 2015

Research Grants Supported

Matthias Schmitz, PhD

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

Joaquín Castilla, PhD

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

Wen-Quan Zou, MD, PhD

Grant Title:
Developing Therapeutics for CJD Using Patient-Specific iPSC-Derived Neurons

Location:
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

Grant Year:
2015

Zuzana Krejciova, PhD

Grant Title:
Human stem cell derived neural models for sCJD prion propagation and drug discovery

Location:
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco

Grant Year:
2016

Byron Caughey, PhD

Grant Title:
Antisense Oligonucleotides to delay or prevent onset of prion disease in mice

Location:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health

Grant Year:
2016

Charles E. Mays, PhD

Grant Title:
Design and Development of Anti-Prions as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Prion Disease

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

Grant Year:
2017

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

Steven E. Arnold, MD

Grant Title: Assessing long-term stability of cerebrospinal fluid PrP levels in genetic prion disease mutation carriers

Location: Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; and Translational Neurology Head of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Grant Year: 2019

Dr. Sarah Vascellari

Grant Title:
Development of a blood and urine prion diagnostic test for human prion diseases using the Real Time QuIC assays

Location:
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari (UniCa), Cagliari, Italy

Grant Year: 2023

Dr. Thomas Cunningham and Elizabeth Hill

Grant Title:
Generation of Humanised STX6 Overexpression Mice to Study Prion Disease Genetic Risk and as a Model for Therapeutic Intervention

Location:
MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, London

Grant Year: 2023

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

Jason Thomas Duskey and Barbara Ruozi

Grant Title:
Optimization of nanoparticle-mediated brain delivery of a tetracationic porphyrin with potent anti-prion activities

Location:
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Grant Year: 2021

Qingzhong Kong, PhD

Grant Title:
The RAP approach for effective prevention and treatment of prion diseases

Location:
Case Western Reserve University

Grant Year:
2020