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The main
goal of my research is to
assess the risk of variant CJD, in continental Europe by
comparison with the United Kingdom (U.K.).
I did the
present study in 1998 in Paris, as a PhD
student at INSERM <http://www.u444.jussieu.fr>,
Unit 444 “Epidémiologie et Sciences de l‘Information“, with a
grant from the French Ministry of Research and some support from the
French Research Programm on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs):
<http://www.inserm.fr/prions>.
I am very
grateful to Pr.
Carleton Gajdusek, Pr Robert Will (CJDSU), Pr Alain-Jacques Valleron (INSERM
U444), Dr Annick Alpérovitch (INSERM U360) and Meir Lenyado for their
comments on this study.
I have a
post-doctoral position since Sept. 1999 in
the context of the European Union shared cost project “Surveillance
and Diagnosis of Ruminant TSEs “, task 3: Surveillance and modeling
(FAIRJ-CT98-7021), at Bern University in Switzerland.
I did similar
studies on BSE data in the U.K. (Cohen CH et
al. Int J Epidemiol 1999;28:526-3), Switzerland (Cohen CH
et al. in revision), France (Cohen CH et al. in preparation),
and Portugal.
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