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Alberta Prion Research InstituteThe Alberta Prion Research Institute (APRI, also called the Prion Institute) was a provincial research funder set up by the Government of Alberta in 2
ANSES Lyon laboratory (French agency for food, environmental and occupational health and safety)The Lyon laboratory of ANSES, the French public agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety, is France's national reference laborato- Arbeitskreis Blut (German national advisory committee on blood, based at the Robert Koch Institute)The Arbeitskreis Blut (AK Blut) is the expert committee on blood products and blood donation and transfusion services that the German Federal Ministry
- Broad Institute: Vallabh/Minikel Prion Therapeutic Science programBroad Institute program led by Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel (Prions@Broad, launched 2015; Prion Therapeutic Science program).
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National Centre for Animal Disease, Lethbridge (WOAH reference laboratory for BSE)The National Centre for Animal Disease (NCAD) in Lethbridge County, Alberta, is a federal Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) laboratory, first ope
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield, national and WOAH reference laboratory for scrapie and CWDThe Ottawa Animal Health Laboratory is a federal Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) laboratory on the Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield) campus, 3851
CIBERINFEC, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas, SpainCIBERINFEC is the infectious diseases thematic area of CIBER, the networked biomedical research consortium of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain.- Dulbecco Telethon Laboratory of Prions and Amyloids, CIBIO, University of TrentoThis is an academic research laboratory in the Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO) of the University of Trento, at the Povo science campus.
CIC bioGUNE Prion Research Lab (Basque Research and Technology Alliance)CIC bioGUNE in Derio, Spain, home of Joaquin Castilla's Prion Research Lab, which holds a 2024 CJD Foundation grant for dominant-negative protein gene- CIMUS Biomedical Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela (Requena prion structure group)CIMUS (also written CiMUS) is a singular research centre of the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, focused on molecular medicine
- CISA-INIA, Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Valdeolmos, Spain (prion group)CISA is the Spanish animal health research centre at Valdeolmos, outside Madrid, created in 1993 and now part of the INIA within the CSIC.
- Prion Research Center, Colorado State UniversityThe Prion Research Center is a research center inside Colorado State University, not a separate legal body and not a clinic.
- Etablissement Francais du Sang (French national blood service)The Etablissement Francais du Sang (EFS) is the French public blood service, created on 1 January 2000 under a 1998 health safety law as the successor
- EU reference laboratory for TSEs (consortium led by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d Aosta, Turin, with the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome)The EU reference laboratory (EURL) for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) is the top laboratory for animal prion disease testing in the EU.
Fundacion Espanola de Enfermedades Prionicas (FEEP), SpainFEEP is the Spanish national non-profit for people affected by prion diseases and their families.
Australian National CJD Registry (Florey Institute and University of Melbourne)Australian National CJD Registry at the Florey Institute and University of Melbourne: runs CSF 14-3-3 and RT-QuIC testing, offers tissue codon 129 gen
Fondazione Telethon, ItalyFondazione Telethon is an Italian non-profit, founded in 1990 and now registered as a third sector body, whose mission is to fund Italian research on rare genetic diseases.
Paris Brain Institute (Institut du Cerveau, ICM), prion disease group at Sorbonne Universite with Inserm and CNRSThe Paris Brain Institute (Institut du Cerveau, ICM) is a brain research institute founded in 2010 on the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital site in Paris, ru- Bioaraba Health Research Institute (IIS Bioaraba), Vitoria-Gasteiz, SpainBioaraba is the public health research institute of Araba province in the Basque Country, set up under a 2017 agreement between BIOEF, the University
INRAE ENVT UMR 1225 IHAP, host pathogen interactions unit, Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de ToulouseIHAP is a joint research unit on the campus of the Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, founded in 2003, with about a hundred scientists and techn
Protein macro-assembly and prion diseases team (MAP2), Molecular Virology and Immunology unit (VIM, UMR 0892), INRAE Jouy-en-JosasThis is the prion laboratory of INRAE at the Jouy-en-Josas campus near Paris.- Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, VareseThe Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences (DBSV) of the University of Insubria was set up in 2011 to put biology, biotechnology and medicine i
- IRTA-CRESA, Animal Health Research Centre of the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (Catalonia), prion groupIRTA-CReSA is the animal health research centre of IRTA, the Catalan public institute for agrifood research and technology, on the Universitat Autonom
ISCIII Centro Nacional de Microbiologia, spongiform encephalopathies reference laboratoryA laboratory of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) in Madrid that runs the national premortem tests for suspected human prion disease in Spain- Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria, Algete (Spanish central veterinary laboratory, TSE confirmation)The Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria (LCV) is the Spanish agriculture ministry's own central animal health laboratory, at Carretera M-106 km 1.4 in Algete, north-east of Madrid.
- Linkoping University, IFM chemistry, luminescent conjugated oligothiophene group (Nilsson and Hammarstrom)Two closely linked research groups in the Division of Chemistry of the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at Linkoping University, Swe
Weissman Hood Institute at Touro UniversityThe Weissman Hood Institute at Touro University is the current name of the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, Montana, a small independent 
NEIKER, Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, animal health departmentNEIKER is the Basque Government's agricultural research institute, a public company based at Arkaute in Alava and Derio in Bizkaia, constituted in 199
NIH NeuroNEXT (NINDS)NIH NINDS NeuroNEXT clinical trial network that funds and hosts the PRiSM project (NN112), including its five clinical sites and observational arm.
CJD Resource Centre, NIBSC (MHRA), United KingdomThe CJD Resource Centre is a UK research tissue bank that supplies characterised reference material for developing and testing prion diagnostics.
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), MHRA, United KingdomNIBSC is the UK public laboratory that makes and holds reference materials for biological medicines and diagnostics, does independent batch release te
NIMHANS, Bengaluru (CJD registry, neuropathology and brain bank)Bengaluru neuroscience institute that hosts India's longest-running CJD registry (69 cases in the 1968 to 1997 period, 85 recorded to 2005) and built an in-house CSF 14-3-3 assay.- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), TrondheimNINA is an independent Norwegian research foundation that studies nature and how people and nature interact, set up in 1988 and based in Trondheim wit
- Norwegian Veterinary Institute, prion and atypical scrapie groupThe Norwegian Veterinary Institute is Norway's biomedical research institute and national centre of expertise in biosecurity for fish and land animals
- Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (German federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines, competent authority for blood products)The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) in Langen, Hesse, is a senior federal authority under the German Federal Ministry of Health that authorises and contro
- Public Health Agency of Canada and University of Manitoba (national prion laboratory)This entry covers the Canadian federal public health system for human prion disease, which has two linked parts inside the Public Health Agency of Can
- Priogen Corp (University of Minnesota spinout for prion and CWD testing, Minneapolis)Priogen Corp is a small Minnesota company spun out of the University of Minnesota in 2022 to sell prion seed amplification tests and reagents.
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- Robert Koch Institute, Prion and Prionoid Research Unit (Berlin)The Prion and Prionoid Research Unit is a laboratory group at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany's federal public health institute, in Berlin.
The Roslin Institute, University of EdinburghThe Roslin Institute is an animal science research institute of the University of Edinburgh, part of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at - Institute of Neuropathology, Saarland University Medical Centre (Homburg)University hospital neuropathology institute in Homburg (Saarland, Germany) that combines routine diagnostic neuropathology (brain tumours, muscle and
- Transgenic Facility, Department of Medicine, University of SalamancaThe Transgenic Facility is a mouse genetic modification service of the University of Salamanca, part of the NUCLEUS research support platform, with it
SISSA Trieste, prion biology laboratory (Legname)The Laboratory of Prion Biology is a basic research group at SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) in Trieste, Italy, led by Giuse- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of TorontoTanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, home of Gerold Schmitt-Ulms's brain-penetrant cardiac glycoside program (KDC203) lowering PrPC.
Tel Aviv University (Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience)Tel Aviv University is a large public research university in Israel; its medical faculty, founded in 1964, was the Sackler Faculty of Medicine until 2
Touro University (Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Montana)Touro University is a private United States university system founded in New York in 1970, with over 20,000 students across many schools.
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of AlbertaThe Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases is a multi-faculty research centre of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, not a separate legal body and not a clinic.
Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of CalgaryThe Calgary Prion Research Unit (CPRU) is a research unit run by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary, Alberta.
UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative DiseasesThe Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) is a research institute inside the University of California San Francisco, not a separate legal body and not a clinic.
UCSF Memory and Aging CenterUCSF Memory and Aging Center, where Michael Geschwind leads the rapidly progressive dementia clinical research program and ran NIH-funded cohorts in genetic prion disease.- Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfThe Institute of Neuropathology is an institute of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).
- UMass Chan Medical School (Khvorova lab)UMass Chan Medical School, home of the Khvorova lab that invented the divalent siRNA scaffold used in the PRiSM drug; it licenses oligonucleotide prog
- Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach (MNPRO), University of MinnesotaThe Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach (MNPRO) is a research centre in the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Minnesota, St.
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), including the National Veterinary Services Laboratories, AmesAPHIS is the animal and plant health agency of the US Department of Agriculture.
- USDA ARS National Animal Disease Center (Ames, Iowa)The National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa is a federal laboratory of the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)UTHealth Houston is a public academic health institution in the University of Texas System; its McGovern Medical School Department of Neurology hosts
- Whitehead Institute and MIT (Weissman lab)Whitehead Institute (Cambridge, Massachusetts), where Jonathan Weissman's lab built CHARM, the compact epigenetic editor that silences the prion protein gene in mouse brain.