The following is a list and brief description of organizations that have provided information on how donated money would be used The information was collected to be used as a reference for research and service organization donations. CJD Voice does not solicit donations of any type for any facility. Neither CJD Voice, nor its members, take responsibility for the legitimacy of these facilities, their practices, or the information they provided. Neither CJD Voice nor its members are liable for any use made of this information. Currently working on inherited prion diseases and related conditions.
People can specify that the funds be used for prion-related research.
Donations can be designated for either project or both. We would like to fund other projects like a fund for transportation and performances of much needed autopsies, but we do not have sufficient resources at the present time to finance them. Our main interest is in administration of sequencing the prion gene in various species by selected researchers worldwide. 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.