European Commission launches world-leading prion research network

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European Commission launches world-leading prion research network

For Release: 27 May 2004

Organisation:European Commission, Research DG

On 28 May 2004 in Paris, European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will launch the world's leading research network on prion diseases.

With 52 laboratories in 20 countries, this network of excellence will bring together 90% of European research teams working on BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, the human form of BSE), scrapie (a sheep prion disease) and other types of prion diseases.

The European Union research budget will provide €14.4 million over 5 years to the network.

A new prion research facility will also be launched at the CEA (Commissariat A lâ Energie Atomique), which is a major multi-disciplinary research organisation in France and the institution coordinating the NeuroPrion network of excellence (for a list of partners see annex).