Young receives $214,500 for disease research
AgBio CommunicationsAlan Young, associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Science, has received a grant of $214,500 from the National Institute of Health for the study of the role of cells of the immune system in the earliest stages of infection with prion disorders. The SDSU research will involve looking at scrapie disease in sheep, and it may help in the search for an early diagnostic tool for other prion diseases such as chronic wasting disease (affects deer and elk), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or “mad cow” disease), and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (affects humans).