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Postdoctoral researcher awarded grant to improve prion disease mouse model
Alyssa Block received a one-year research grant from the CJD Foundation to investigate selective adaptation of human prions during intracranial and peripheral transmission using a refined gene-targeted mouse model.
MIP graduate student Greg Pugh selected as a Summer Dissertation Fellow
Greg Pugh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Foy lab, was selected as a 2025 Graduate School Summer Thesis/Dissertation Fellow.
Science: Leprosy was an American scourge long before Europeans arrived
Hoping to learn more about when M. lepromatosis emerged, Rascovan reached out to microbiologist Charlotte Avanzi at Colorado State University, whose lab investigated M. lepromatosis in British red squirrels.
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