I, too, am badly out of my lane...
That said, prions seem like an interesting area - and I notice there are papers that discuss possible new therapies that use a prion-like shift.
Here's a link:
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I notice the year is 2001; so, if it were me, I would probably take the authors' names and put them into an academic database (proquest?), and look for recent publications. Perhaps one of them would provide a suitable idea.
Then, one can (quite shamelessly) peruse the bibliography and get supportive articles for your own paper.