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