Christina D. Orru

Key facts

• Lead author of the second-generation RT-QuIC paper (mBio 2015) and of the 2020 six-laboratory ring trial; staff scientist on Caughey's team for 19 years and trained people at about 30 laboratories.
• First author of the 2014 NEJM nasal brushing RT-QuIC study (97 percent sensitivity and 100 percent specificity).
• By 2019 she had trained people at about 30 laboratories on RT-QuIC, according to a tribute to Byron Caughey.
• She is lead author with Groveman and Caughey of the 2025 chapter Tracking Prions by RT-QuIC: An Update.
• She is named among the colleagues in Caughey's lab in 2019 and a co-contributor of the CWD rectal mucosa RT-QuIC protocol.
• A named inventor on the NIH bank vole substrate technology listing (as Christina Groveman).

Timeline

1. 2014NEJM nasal brushing paper.
2. 2019Named in the RML team photo.
3. 2025RT-QuIC update chapter online.