Celebrating Byron Caughey, 1957-2026

Byron Caughey lecturing at Prion2019 in Edmonton, Alberta. Byron Caughey, a wonderful friend and mentor and a giant of the prion research field, passed away on Sunday. For nearly 40 years at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, Byron advanced our understanding of what prions are, what prion disease is, how to detect and diagnose it, and how we could eventually treat it. In the 1980s…