Keynote Speakers

Stanley B. Prusiner, MD

Director, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA

Virtual

Michel Goedert, FRS, FMedSci

Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England

John Collinge, CBE, FRS, FMedSci

Director, MRC Prion Unit, Institute of Prion Diseases, UC London, London, England

Speakers

Adriano Aguzzi, Prof. Dr. med.

Director, Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Brian Appleby, MD

Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve U School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

Karen Ashe, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN

Jason Bartz, PhD

Chair and Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE

Joaquín Castilla, PhD

IKERBasque Research Professor, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain

Byron Caughey, PhD

Rocky Mountain Labs, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT

Ken Chan, PhD

Group Leader, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

William P. Daley, PhD

Program Director, Neural Environment Cluster, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health

Gregg Day, MD

Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL

Bernardino Ghetti, MD

Distinguished Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Grace Hallinan, PhD

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

David Harris, MD, PhD

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Mathias Jucker, PhD

German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and University of Tübingen, Germany

Richard Knight, BA, BM BCh, FRCP(E)

Chair, CJD Support Network, U.K. and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Holly Kordasiewicz, PhD

Senior Vice President, Neurology, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

Gabor G. Kovacs MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Allison Kraus, PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

Kelvin C. Luk, PhD MTR

Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Szymon W. Manka, PhD

MRC Prion Unit, Institute of Prion Diseases, UC London, London, England

Simon Mead, PhD

Clinical Professor, MRC Prion Unit, Institute of Prion Diseases, UC London, London, England and National Prion Clinic, UC London, London, England

Melanie Meyer-Lüehmann, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Eric Minikel, PhD

Senior Group Leader, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Sue-Ann Mok, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Rodrigo Morales, PhD

Professor, The George and Cynthia W Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX

Piero Parchi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedial and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Christina Sigurdson, DVM, PhD

Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA and Sigurdson Lab, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA

Claudio Soto, PhD

Director, The George and Cynthia W Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX

Glenn Telling, PhD

Director, Prion Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Sonia Vallabh, PhD

Senior Group Leader, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Nathalie Van Den Berge, MScEng, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine - Core Centre for Molecular Morphology, Section for Stereology and Microscopy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Joel Watts, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Amanda L. Woerman, PhD

Associate Professor, Prion Research Center, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, College of Vetrinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Jyan Yu Austin Yang, PhD

Program Director, Neurobiology of Aging and Neurodegeneration Branch, Division of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

CJD Foundation Speakers and Family Members

Debbie Yobs

President and Executive Director, CJD Foundation

Trevor Baierl

CJD Foundation Volunteer

Nick De Maggio

CJD Foundation Volunteer

Pamela Fear

CJD Foundation Board Member and Volunteer

Vicki Qualley

CJD Foundation Volunteer