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Latest papers
A model-based prion vaccine protects a transgenic mouse line carrying a Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease mutation.
Acta neuropathologica · 2026
Gustav Oppenheim (1882-1937) and the Discovery of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy.
The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2025 · senior author
In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence towards Fibronectin's Protective Effects against Prion Infection.
International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
Latest funding
- $1,472,160
A comprehensive approach to halt chronic wasting disease transmission
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $273,175
Environmental prion inactivation
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
18 publications.
A model-based prion vaccine protects a transgenic mouse line carrying a Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease mutation.
Fang A, Tang X, Fleming M, Tancowny B, Wang X, Wang Y, Daude N, Dorosh L, Fleck SC, Rathod V, Coustou V, Cervantes SA, Velásquez CD, Westaway D, Aiken J, McKenzie D, Telling G, Stepanova M, Saupe SJ, Siemer AB, Wille H
Gustav Oppenheim (1882-1937) and the Discovery of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy.
Ness AM, Aiken J
In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence towards Fibronectin's Protective Effects against Prion Infection.
Garza MC, Kang SG, Kim C, Monleón E, van der Merwe J, Kramer DA, Fahlman R, Sim VL, Aiken J, McKenzie D, Cortez LM, Wille H
Sheep scrapie and deer rabies in England prior to 1800.
Ness A, Aiken J, McKenzie D
Innate Immune Status of Glia Modulates Prion Propagation in Early Stage of Infection.
Kang SG, Kim C, Aiken J, McKenzie D
Emergence of CWD strains.
Otero A, Duque Velasquez C, McKenzie D, Aiken J
Cellular prion protein distribution in the vomeronasal organ, parotid, and scent glands of white-tailed deer and mule deer.
Ness A, Jacob A, Saboraki K, Otero A, Gushue D, Martinez Moreno D, de Peña M, Tang X, Aiken J, Lingle S, McKenzie D
Chronic wasting disease prions in mule deer interdigital glands.
Ness A, Zeng D, Kuznetsova A, Otero A, Kim C, Saboraki K, Lingle S, Pybus M, Aiken J, Gilch S, McKenzie D
Chronic wasting disease: a cervid prion infection looming to spillover.
Otero A, Velásquez CD, Aiken J, McKenzie D
White-tailed deer S96 prion protein does not support stable in vitro propagation of most common CWD strains.
Otero A, Duque Velásquez C, Aiken J, McKenzie D
A comprehensive approach to halt chronic wasting disease transmission
Principal investigators: Gilch, Sabine S
Keywords: caribou conservation; chronic wasting disease (cwd); cwd genetic resistance; indigenous knowledge; infectious disease; prion disease; prion protein genetics; prion-soil interaction; wildlife vaccine
Environmental prion inactivation
Principal investigators: Aiken, Judd
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Debbie McKenzie and Judd Aiken: 15 shared papers
- Holger Wille and Maria Stepanova: 11 shared papers
- David Westaway and Holger Wille: 9 shared papers
- David Westaway and Debbie McKenzie: 7 shared papers
- Holger Wille and Debbie McKenzie: 7 shared papers
- Holger Wille and Judd Aiken: 5 shared papers
- Sabine Gilch and Debbie McKenzie: 5 shared papers
- David Westaway and Maria Stepanova: 3 shared papers
- David Westaway and Judd Aiken: 3 shared papers
- Holger Wille and Sabine Gilch: 3 shared papers
- Maria Stepanova and Debbie McKenzie: 2 shared papers
- David Westaway and Richard Fahlman: 1 shared paper
- David Westaway and Sabine Gilch: 1 shared paper
- David Westaway and Vineet Rathod: 1 shared paper
- Jasna Kriz and Holger Wille: 1 shared paper
- Jasna Kriz and Judd Aiken: 1 shared paper
- Holger Wille and Richard Fahlman: 1 shared paper
- Holger Wille and Vineet Rathod: 1 shared paper
- Richard Fahlman and Debbie McKenzie: 1 shared paper
- Richard Fahlman and Judd Aiken: 1 shared paper
- Sabine Gilch and Judd Aiken: 1 shared paper
- Maria Stepanova and Vineet Rathod: 1 shared paper
- Maria Stepanova and Judd Aiken: 1 shared paper
- Vineet Rathod and Judd Aiken: 1 shared paper
- Biochemistry
- Biological Sciences
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Cell biology
- Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of
- Other
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Debbie McKenzie
Biological Sciences
15 shared papers, latest 2026
Holger Wille
Biochemistry
5 shared papers, latest 2026
David Westaway
Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Richard Fahlman
Biochemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Sabine Gilch
Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Maria Stepanova
Cell biology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Vineet Rathod
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Jasna Kriz
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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