Stanley B. Prusiner
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Stanley B. Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist who made major scientific contributions to understanding neurological diseases. His work matters because it advanced medical knowledge in ways that have helped researchers and doctors better understand and potentially treat serious brain conditions.
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- 1942-05-28
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- Slow Transmissible Diseases of the Nervous System
- Prions Prions Prions
- Prion Biology
- Prion Diseases
- Madness and Memory
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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.
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1942 birthsAmerican biochemistsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesBenjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureatesForeign members of the Royal SocietyForeign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsHoward Hughes Medical InvestigatorsJewish American medical doctorsJewish American scientistsJewish chemists