Advancing Prion Science Guidance for the National Prion Research Program: Interim Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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5. Prion Research Infrastructure
5. Prion Research Infrastructure
Pages 83-88
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At present fewer than 20 principal investigators conduct prion research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , the largest sponsor of TSE research in the United States.
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Second, the costs of conducting prion research are generally higher than those of conducting other kinds of infectious-disease research. The animals needed for prion bioassays are expensive to maintain, and the long incubation periods associated with prion diseases require relatively long time frames for a single experiment.
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France has a biosafety level 3 facility with housing for 60 macaques, and the government is building a dedicated prion research facility that will house 120 monkeys and provide laboratories for visiting scientists (Johnson, personal communicator, 2002~. At a recent Institute of Medicine committee meeting, a scientist from a large Swiss TSE research facility indicated that a great deal of collaborative TSE research is occurring on both a national and an international scale (Raeber, 2002~.
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The TSE research community in the United States needs not only standard reference materials but also reference centers. These centers do not necessarily need to be stand-alone facilities, nor does any one center need to contain all the various types of required reference materials.
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The pace of progress in prion disease research will be determined not only by what is studied but also by the capacity to pursue scientific inquiry. A small, albeit dedicated, effort is proceeding in the United States, and that effort will continue to make contributions, but at a pace that ultimately may not accomplish the nation's goals in a timely manner.
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Geneva: World Health Organization Communicable Disease Surveillance Control and Office International des Epizooties.
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