Our Web site is currently maintained through income from endowment but donations are needed and welcomed here as well. We will take advantage of the fact that the mammalian prion protein appears to be converted to the conformation characteristic of the disease when incubated with yeast proteins. South Maryland Ave. Yale Medical School Section of Neuropathology, Dept. To support research on CJD infections, with animal, cellular and molecular studies to clarify useful diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic approaches and to understand fundamental properties of the infectious agent and neurodegenerative processes in aging.
Donor determines how donation to be used.
Possibilities are funding a prize for major contributions towards an understanding of TSEs, sponsorship of a named fellowship to undertake research into the TSEs, and a general contribution towards sustaining the TSE research programme. Research which enlightens the role of prions in the life cycle of prions and the search of therapeutics which could block important steps within that cycle. Since BSE is affecting cattle there they have to be alert for the appearance of cases of new variant. Donated funds would be used to purchase modern safety lab equipment that is needed to handle CJD material and to provide more CJD information to health professionals. Donated Funds will be used for epidemiological investigations of confirmed cases of CJD, documenting the history of infertility and gynecological surgery in women, and the history of cardiac, urologic, reconstructive, vascular and neurosurgery surgery, dura mater implants, blood transfusion, and dietary and performance-enhancing hormones in men and women.