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Project List

Funded by: BBSRC
Institute Strategic Programme Grant

The TSE Resource Centre

Funded by: MRC
Assessing the risk of transmission of vCJD via blood transfusion and identifying potential for diagnosis and prevention

Funded by: Department of Health
The effect of Leucodepletion on transmission of BSE by transfusion of sheep blood components

Strain typing and investigation of transmission potential of unusual cases of CJD

Funded by: The Alzheimer's Research Trust
Development and characterization of a new transgenic mouse model for sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease

Funded by: Alliance Biosecure
The detection of PrPSc in blood using QuIC shake and CDI technologies: Validation of in vitro studies with infectivity models

Funded by: NHS Blood and Transport:
Evaluation of red cell prion filters in combination with leucoreduction in removing infectivity associated with the BSE agent in sheep

Funded by: DEFRA
Studies on the environmental persistence of TSE infectivity

Funded by: National Institute for Animal Health, Japan
Quantitative analysis of the risk of beef and bone meal and other products

BBSRC Studentships
Investigating the cellular biology of PrP and the molecular mechanisms of the TSE infectious process in cell culture and in vivo

The role of activation of mononuclear phagocytes in protection and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease

Neuropathogenesis of TSE or prion disease in the absence of detectable PrPSc