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Stanley B. Prusiner
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Stanley Benjamin Prusiner
May 28, 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Known for | Prions Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
Stanley Benjamin Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Prusiner currently works at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as a the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection". He also won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994.
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