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Stanley B. Prusiner
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Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Benjamin Prusiner
M.D (born May 28, 1942) is an American
neurologist
and
biochemist
. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at
University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF). Prusiner discovered
prions
, a class of
infectious
self-reproducing
pathogens
primarily or solely composed of
protein
. He received the
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
in 1994 and the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
in 1997 for his prion research.
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