Fellow

Professor Peter Lantos is Professor of Neuropathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He has made a series of extremely important contributions to our understanding of neuro-degenerative disorders in humans and experimental animals in collaboration with John Collinge and his team. He was the first to report the transmissibility of fatal familial insomnia to experimental animals and the unaltered susceptibility of transgenic mice expressing human prion protein to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. These experimental studies have established that the same prion strain causes both Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, proving beyond all doubt the link between the veterinary and the human prion disease.