A special focus issue on the materials of Prion 2011 meeting in Montreal, Canada

摘要

Founded in 2007 and having completed its 5th year by now, Priori is no longer a toddler and is increasingly conscious of its international role in the promulgation of prion science. In keeping with this notion, this special issue marks an intercontinental prion conference held in the lovely venue of Montreal in May 2011, the outcome of a fruitful collaboration between PrioNet Canada, the European NeuroPrion Association and the Alberta Prion Research Institute—three centers of excellence in prion diseases. The first such meeting convened outside of Europe, the conference theme was called "The New World"—not only for its location in North America, but for the novel scientific territory it embraced, especially the prion-like propagated misfolding mechanism applied to common neurological, psychiatric and systemic diseases.