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CJD 2008 and the Sixth Annual CJD Foundation Family Conference was held July 11-13, 2008 in Washington D.C. The conference was sponsored by the CJD Foundation, the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, and PrioNet Canada. There were presentations from some of the world's leading researchers, CJD Surveillance Center Directors and directors of patient/family support organizations.
 
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This one-hour film clip contains a comprehensive consideration of the different forms of prion disorders: sporadic, familial, and acquired...
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During Prion2007, the CJD International Support Alliance was invited to give a talk about the different support groups involved in the alliance and to describe some of the challenges that CJD patients and their families are faced with when confronted with these diseases.

International Alliance of Families Session - Working together globally as CJD patient and family representatives, Florence Kranitz and Suzanne Solvyns

These "public" lectures were filmed during the Prion2007 conference at the Assembly Hall, in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 25th of September 2007 and are now available for you here.

Beyond BSE: Exploring the future of prion diseases in the UK, Prof. James Ironside
Uncertainties and Challenges in Managing the Risk of Transmission of variant CJD by Blood and Tissues, Dr. Marc Turner