People
Intramural Faculty
Judd Aiken
Ph.D. Professor
Dr. Judd Aiken’s primary interest is the role of the environment in the dissemination of prion diseases. Dr. Aiken’s prion research is interdisciplinary focusing on five various fields.
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Ted Allison
Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dr. Allison is developing zebrafish as models of neurodegenerative
disease, especially Prion Diseases (Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting
Disease in deer) and Alzheimer Disease.
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Satyabrata Kar
Ph.D. Professor
Research in my lab focuses on two complementary themes
relating to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD): Aβ-related peptides and central cholinergic neurons, also IGFs in normal brain.
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Debbie McKenzie
Ph.D. Associate Professor
My prion research interests include the role of prion protein genetics in disease resistance and susceptibility, the role of metals in pathology as well as inter and intra-species transmission.
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Valerie Sim
M.D. Assistant Professor
My interests include prion disease pathogenesis, the role of infectious oligomers in this process, and how the abnormal structure of prion protein relates to the infectious properties of these diseases.
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David Westaway
Ph.D. Professor and Director
Dr. David Westaway is a molecular biologist with a special
interest in the use of genetically engineered “transgenic”
mice to recreate and understand human neurologic disorders.
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Holger Wille
Ph.D. Associate Professor
The general focus of my work is the structure of amyloids and other disease-related, misfolded proteins. In particular, I am interested in the infectious prion protein (PrPSc).
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