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Stanley B. Prusiner
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American neurologist and biochemist
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Stanley B. Prusiner is an American physician, virologist, biochemist, and university teacher born in Des Moines in 1942. He holds a professorship and has worked at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley. His professional interests include neurology, biochemistry, and neurobiology. Prusiner is educated at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, San Francisco. He resides in San Francisco and speaks English.
Prusiner has received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. He is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *Slow Transmissible Diseases of the Nervous System*, *Prions Prions Prions*, *Prion Biology*, *Prion Diseases*, and *Madness and Memory*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Slow Transmissible Diseases of the Nervous System
- Prions Prions Prions
- Prion Biology
- Prion Diseases
- Madness and Memory
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1997
“for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Des Moines
- Occupation
- neurologist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- professor
- Field of work
- biochemistry
- Image
- Stanley B. Prusiner in 2024 (3x4 close cropped).jpg
- Residence
- San Francisco
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- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Commons category
- Stanley Prusiner
- date of birth
- 1942-05-28
- Erdős number
- 5
- name in native language
- Stanley B. Prusiner
- interested in
- neurobiology
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Encyclopedic overview
Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). 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 (among them D. E. Garfin, D. P. Stites, W. J. Hadlow and C. M. Eklund) beginning in the early 1970s.
Early life, career and research
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