Stanley B. Prusiner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stanley B. Prusiner

Neurologist, biochemist

Date of Birth: 28-May-1942

Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Profession: physician, neurologist, university teacher, biochemist, virologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Stanley Benjamin Prusiner M.D (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist.
He is 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 prion research developed by him and his team of experts (David E.
Garfin, D.
P.
Stites, W.
J.
Hadlow, C.
W.
Eklund) beginning in the early 1970s.