MRC Prion Unit
Professor John Collinge
Director of the MRC Prion Unit
The unit was set up in 1998 to create an international centre of excellence. It plays a key role in linking basic science to clinical research and focuses principally on human prion diseases. The unit's research strategy is aimed at both rapid developments to target areas of pressing public health concern and a long-term approach to the understanding of prion disease and its wider relevance in pathobiology. Research programmes include molecular genetic studies of human prion disease susceptibility, transgenic modelling of human prion diseases, studies of species barriers to prion transmission, normal cellular function of PrP, molecular and phenotypic analysis of human prion strains, structure of normal and mutant prions and the development of human diagnostics and therapeutics.
Institute of Neurology
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Queen Square
London
WC1N 3BG
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7837 4888
Fax: +44 (0)20 7837 8047
Web: www.prion.ucl.ac.uk
Emergency contact number (for contingency/BCP):
+44 (0)20 7278 5296
