Stanley B. Prusiner
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 82 |
| Date of birth | May 28,1942 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Des Moines |
| Iowa | |
| United States | |
| Fields | Neurology |
| Infection | |
| Disease | |
| Job | Neurologist |
| Biochemist | |
| Education | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| University of Pennsylvania | |
| Books | Prions, Prions, Prions |
| Prion Diseases | |
| Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease | |
| Prion Biology and Diseases | |
| Prion Diseases of Humans and Animals | |
| Awards | Potamkin Prize |
| Dickson Prize | |
| Richard Lounsbery Award | |
| Lasker Award | |
| Keio Medical Science Prize | |
| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Sir Hans Krebs Medal | |
| Dickson Prize in Medicine | |
| Wolf Prize in Medicine | |
| Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | |
| Spous | Sandy Turk Prusiner |
| Children | two |
| Known for | Prions; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 614283 |
Stanley B. Prusiner Life story
Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco. Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein.
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