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American neurologist and chemist (born )

Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, ^[3]) is an American neurologist and biochemist.

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He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).^[4] Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectiousself-reproducingpathogens 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 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts (D. E. Garfin,^[5] D. P. Stites, W. J. Hadlow, C. M. Eklund) beginning in the early s.^[6][7]

Early life, career and research

He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, into a Jewish^[8] family to Miriam (Spigel) and Lawrence Prusiner, an architect.

He spent his childhood in Des Moines and C Stanley B. Prusiner Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements ... ZESUB