PrioNet Canada is a Network of Centres of Excellence for research into prions and prion diseases. Prion diseases are untreatable, transmissible, and fatal neurodegenerative diseases of both humans and animals.

PrioNet capitalizes on strengths in fundamental, applied, and social research to help solve the food, health safety, and socioeconomic problems associated with prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk.

News:
Canadian Researchers Testing Unique Vaccines for Prion Diseases and Common Cancers

VIDO-InterVac at U of S Signs Exclusive License Agreement for Developing a Vaccine Against Chronic Wasting Disease

Featured Project:
Dr. Xavier Roucou from the University of Sherbrooke is conducting ground breaking work with Jean-Philippe Deslys from French Atomic Energy Commission exploring the link between Alzheimer's and prion disease, two major health burdens. Read about it in the latest PrioNews.

Important Deadlines:
July 30 - PrioNet training program applications due

SAVE THE DATE!
PrioNet is proud to co-host of PRION 2011, May 17-19 in Montreal!


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Last updated: 7/27/2010