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Stanley B. Prusiner
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American neurologist and biochemist
OverviewAI-generated
Stanley B. Prusiner is an American physician, virologist, biochemist, and university teacher. Born in Des Moines in 1942, he holds a professorship and has been employed by the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley. He resides in San Francisco and works in the fields of neurology and biochemistry, with an interest in neurobiology.
Prusiner 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. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. His academic education includes studies at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, San Francisco.
His published 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1989-08-17
Discography
- Rain in England2010
- Angels Exodus2011
- I’m Gay (I’m Happy)2011
- Tears 4 God2012
- Afrikantis2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF TOTAL LIPIDES FROM ANIMAL TISSUES
· 1957 · cited 53,666x
- Social Network Analysis
· 1994 · cited 16,449x
- The Effect of a Market Orientation on Business Profitability
· 1990 · cited 16,072x
- Applied Logistic Regression
· 2000 · cited 13,232x
- Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms
· 1992 · cited 12,602x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1997
“for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection”
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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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