Stanley B. Prusiner

Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein. For his prion research he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiolog... more

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  • May 28, 1942 (age 67 years)

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Year Award Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1997
  • "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"
  • 1994
  • For landmark, revolutionary work that established the existence of an entirely new class of infectious agents, and which opened new understanding of the pathogenesis of several baffling neurodegenerative diseases.
  • 1995
  • for discovering prions, a new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structure.
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