Post by Eric Minikel from Prion Alliance
Via their social media channels:
LinkedIn: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care’s Post
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? Sunday is International Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Awareness Day – #CJD is a rare & serious disease causing the brain to degenerate, leading to dementia & death. Did you know that globally most CJD occurs sporadically? ? https://t.co/X0NIR6rKAZ pic.twitter.com/bUuOV05aiF
— Australian Department of Health and Aged Care (@healthgovau) November 9, 2023
John Collinge (MRC Prion Unit, University College London, London, UK) discusses a first-in-human treatment programme to give PRN100, an anti-prion-protein monoclonal antibody, to patients with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease; the report is published in the April issue of The Lancet Neurology.
In Conversation with… John Collinge (link to podcast with listing options)
