About the Authors

Fuquan Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Susan Joiner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Jacqueline M. Linehan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Florin Pintilii

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Tamsin Nazari

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Fabio Argentina

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Connor Preston

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Maged Taema

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Thomas J. Cunningham

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Emmanuel A. Asante

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Tzehow Mok

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, National Prion Clinic, National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Simon Mead

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, National Prion Clinic, National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Sebastian Brandner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Division of Neuropathology, the National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

John Collinge

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jc@prion.ucl.ac.uk (JC); j.wadsworth@prion.ucl.ac.uk (JW)

Affiliations MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, National Prion Clinic, National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan D.F. Wadsworth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jc@prion.ucl.ac.uk (JC); j.wadsworth@prion.ucl.ac.uk (JW)

Affiliation MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JC is a Director and shareholder and JW is a shareholder of D-Gen Limited, an academic spin-out company (co-owners include MRC, UCL, Imperial College and the Wellcome Trust) working in the field of prion disease diagnosis, decontamination, and therapeutics. The other authors have declared no competing interests.