[1] He worked there as a science assistant until 1946, when he took a job in the laboratory at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry.
[5] Together with Yale physician Dorothy M. Horstmann, he studied Teschen's disease, a fatal form of encephalomyelitis that affects pigs.
He also collaborated with Lucy Balian Rorke-Adams, a pediatric neuropathologist, to study Alper's disease in hamsters.
[2] Manuelidis' particular focus was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which is caused by infectious protein particles called prions.
CJD is neurodegenerative, meaning it slowly damages the brain and nervous system.
In the 1980s, they sampled tissue from forty-six Americans whose deaths had been attributed to Alzheimer's disease.