Debbie Yobs
President and Executive Director
Morris Plains, New Jersey
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02/01/19 Medicalresearch.com: Prions from Brain Detectable in Skin Earlier Than Brain Damage
11/22/17 Science Translational Medicine: Prion seeding activity and infectivity in skin samples from patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — Orru et al.
President and Executive Director
Morris Plains, New Jersey
Grant Title: Investigating the role of BLOC-1 complex in prion disease
Location: University of Zurich
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: DNA Extraction for Global Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Location: MRC Prion Unit and National Prion Clinic, University College London (UCL) Institute of Prion Diseases
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: The structural basis of prion-induced synaptotoxicity
Location: Imperial College London (ICL)
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: New strains, new risks: evaluating the host range and zoonotic potential of CWD prion strains
Location: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: Characterizing Early Synaptic Dysfunction in Human Prion Disease Using a Human iPSC-Derived Neuronal Model
Location: University of California, San Diego
Grant Year: 2026
Grant Title: Haematopoietic stem cell gene therapy as a novel therapeutic for CNS prion disease
Location: The Roslin Institute & Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh
Grant Year: 2026