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| Born | Stanley Ben Prusiner May 28, 1942 Des Moines, Iowa, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BA, MD) |
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| Spouse | Sandy Turk Prusiner[3] |
| Children | two[3] |
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Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942[3]) is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[4] Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific theory considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts (D. E. Garfin,[5] D. P. Stites, W. J. Hadlow, C. M. Eklund) beginning in the early 1970s.[6][7]
- ^ "MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2018.
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- ^ Stanley Prusiner on ResearchGate
- ^ Fintschenko, Y, Salamanzadeh, A, Davalos, R (2014). "AES 2013: Annual Meeting of the AES Electrophoresis Society". American Laboratory. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Prusiner S. B. (1982). "Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause scrapie". Science. 216 (4542): 136–144. Bibcode:1982Sci...216..136P. doi:10.1126/science.6801762. PMID 6801762.
- ^ Prusiner S. B. (1991). "Molecular biology of prion diseases". Science. 252 (5012): 1515–1522. Bibcode:1991Sci...252.1515P. doi:10.1126/science.1675487. PMID 1675487. S2CID 22417182.
