About Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner 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 beginning in the early 1970s.
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Wolf Prize in Medicine
National Medal of Science
Humboldt Prize
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
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Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Canada Gairdner International Award
Dickson Prize in Medicine
Keio Medical Science Prize
Richard Lounsbery Award
Max Planck Research Award
Potamkin Prize
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Sir Hans Krebs Medal
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research
Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
