Creighton researcher wins grant

Creighton University has been awarded a $1.4 million grant to continue its study of one of the factors believed to be involved in a disease that kills wild and captive deer and elk.

Creighton researchers will study the protein malformations known as prions. The prions are thought to be involved in chronic wasting disease, mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health was awarded to Anthony Kincaid, a neuroscientist and an associate professor of physical therapy.

Kincaid and Creighton virologist Jason Bartz were the first to report that prion disease in laboratory animals could be spread by inhalation of the agent into the nasal cavity.

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