Corinne Lasmezas is a French neurologist who joined Scripps in Florida in June 2005.

Since the mid-90's, she has been studying Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow disease”), using dozens of monkeys and hundreds of mice in experiments. In her studies, animals were injected (either intravenously or orally) with brain tissue from infected humans, cows, sheep or other monkeys. The animals were then observed as the disease progressed. After an incubation period, the animals began to show signs of the neurological disease. Lasmezas noted that the animal's suffering began with behaviors such as nervousness, teeth grinding and poor coordination, but the animals also suffered blindness, paralysis, loss of muscle coordination and seizures. Many animals suffered from the disease for several months before being killed and dissected.

At Scripps, she continues her work using animals in studying CJD and other prion diseases.