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Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942 [3]) is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). [4] Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific ...
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Apr 23, 2024 · Stanley B. Prusiner is an American biochemist and neurologist whose discovery in 1982 of disease-causing proteins called prions won him the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Prusiner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1964; M.D., 1968).
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Department of Neurology. stanley.prusiner@ucsf.edu. Stanley B. Prusiner is Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He received his B.A. in Chemistry in 1964 and his M.D. in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jun 3, 2018 · Stanley Prusiner is a neurologist and biochemist who discovered prions, infectious proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF and has received many awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Stanley Prusiner is a professor of neurology and biochemistry and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF. He discovered prions, infectious proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases, and won the Nobel Prize for his work.
Stanley B. Prusiner, Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of "prions," adding a new class of infectious agents to the known list of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. An acronym he derived from "proteinaceous ...
Jun 5, 2014 · Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner: What prompted me to suggest that the scrapie agent was composed only of a protein is that as we enriched scrapie infectivity relative to other molecules, we kept finding evidence for protein and less and less evidence for a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA). These results were unexpected but eventually we were able to study ...
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