2024 Family Conference: CJD Foundation Research Grant Recipient Report Panel B

Moderator: Richard Knight, BA, BM BCh, FRCP(E)
Dr. Thomas Cunningham, MRC Prion Unit at UC London, Institute of Prion Diseases, London, England
“Generation of humanised STX6 overexpression mice to study prion disease genetic risk and as a model for therapeutic intervention”
Victoria Lawson, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
“Risk of cancer from reduced expression of PrPC-implications for prion disease treatment”
Ignazio Cali, PhD, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
“Investigating prion protein seeding activity in Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy”
Dr. Sarah Vascellari, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari (UniCa), Cagliari, Italy
“Development of a blood and urine prion diagnostic test for human prion diseases using the Real Time QuIC assays”