Prion Alliance Inc.
Prion Alliance Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Prion Alliance, Inc aims to catalyze the development of a treatment or cure for human prion diseases by funding, organizing and promoting scientific research. Our organization supports research directed at understanding prion disease biology, discovering and testing therapeutics, and developing novel lab and computational methodologies needed for furthering this research. Our operational model is to raise funds and disburse these to the most worthy scientific projects, with a view to the projects' relevance to our ultimate goal of a treatment or cure, as well as to the projects' ability to leverage Prion Alliance, Inc seed funding in order to pursue outside funding sources for continued research. We also strive to bring together top scientific minds to share data, methodology, and findings in a spirit of openness and collaboration.
About
We supported efforts at the Broad Institute to develop prion protein-lowering therapeutics for prion disease, including preclinical efficacy studies and fluid biomarker studies. See the following publications for details: Vallabh et al, PMID: 30936307; Raymond et al, PMID: 31361599; Minikel & Kuhn et al, PMID: 31558565; Reidenbach & Minikel et al, PMID: 31861275; and Vallabh et al, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.13.19014217
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
According to the filing, the non-profit's mission is “Prion alliance, inc aims to catalyze the development of a treatment or cure for human prion diseases by funding, organizing and promoting scientific research. our organization supports research directed at understanding prion disease biology, discovering and testing therapeutics, and developing novel lab and computational methodologies needed for furthering this research. our operational model is to raise funds and disburse these to the most worthy scientific projects, with a view to the projects' relevance to our ultimate goal of a treatment or cure, as well as to the projects' ability to leverage prion alliance, inc seed funding in order to pursue outside funding sources for continued research. we also strive to bring together top scientific minds to share data, methodology, and findings in a spirit of openness and collaboration.”.
When referring to its actions, they were described as: “Prion alliance, inc aims to catalyze the development of a treatment or cure for human prion diseases by funding, organizing and promoting scientific research. our organization supports research directed at understanding prion disease biology, discovering and testing therapeutics, and developing novel lab and computational methodologies needed for furthering this research. our operational model is to raise funds and disburse these to the most worthy scientific projects, with a view to the projects' relevance to our ultimate goal of a treatment or cure, as well as to the projects' ability to leverage prion alliance, inc seed funding in order to pursue outside funding sources for continued research. we also strive to bring together top scientific minds to share data, methodology, and findings in a spirit of openness and collaboration.”.
- According to the law, the state of operation reported by the non-profit is MA.
- As per the filing, the address of the non-profit for 2020 is 40 Kinnaird St Apt 1, Cambridge, MA, 02319.
- According to their form, the non-profit as of 2020 has a total of 0 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $100,000 and $250,000.
- Revenue is between $250,000 and $500,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $3,040.
- The organization has 3 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2012.
- The organization pays $0 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $0 in fundraising expenses.