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The Robert J. Esposito Memorial Research Grant

Contributed by: Kathy Esposito

Established in 2018

Research Grants Supported

Valerie Sim, MD, FRCPC

Grant Title:
Strain-specific pathology and spread in prion organotypic slice culture assay infected with different strains of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Location:
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Canada

Grant Year: 2021

Charles E. Mays, Ph.D.

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

Gianluigi Zanusso, MD, PhD

Grant Title:
RT-QuIC assay on olfactory brushings in asymptomatic carriers of E200K mutation: An explorative study for establishing when a preventive therapy should be started

Location:
University of Verona, Italy

Grant Year:
2017

Byron Caughey, Ph.D.

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

Emiliano Biasini, PhD

Grant Title:
Pharmacological Chaperones for the Cellular Prion Protein

Location:
Center for Integrative Biology (CIBIO) at the University of Trento, Italy

Grant Year:
2015

Wen-Quan Zou, M.D., Ph.D.

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