Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Benjamin Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Prusiner currently works at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as a the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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| Born | Stanley Benjamin Prusiner May 28, 1942[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Known for | Prions Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurology, infectious disease |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco |
Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection".[1] He also won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Stanley B. Prusiner - Facts". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
- ↑ "Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award: Stanley Prusiner". Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-06-28.