• The public “TSEs in goats” website

  Link: http://www.goatbse.eu

• Prion2009 special edition Newsletter

  The Prion2009 special edition Newsletter has just been released.

• EC Workshop “Implications of the TSE Roadmap on Risk Perception and Risk Communication in Europe”

  A risk management workshop on risk perception and risk communication of TSEs in general and on the TSE Roadmap in particular will be held in Brussels, 23rd November 2009.

• Prion2009-programme and book of abstracts

  On the heels of Paris 2004, Düsseldorf 2005, Turin 2006, Edinburgh 2007, Madrid 2008, the international conference "Prion2009" was held on September 23-25, 2009 in Porto Carras, Chalkidiki, Greece.

Prof. James Ironside, who has been at the forefront of vCJD research from the outset, is Professor of Clinical Neuropathology at the University of Edinburgh and is the Head of the Neuropathology Laboratories in the National CJD Surveillance Unit.