Business Wire: Alzheon Appoints Nobel Laureate Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, as Chair of Scientific Advisory Board
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Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the founding director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) 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. H…
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science · American neurologist and chemist (born 1942) · physician · virologist · biochemist · university teacher · neurologist · also Stanley B. Prusiner, Stanley Prusiner, Stanley B Prusiner, Stanley Benjamin Prusiner, Prusiner
Born 28 May 1942 · Q155380
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2009· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2009).
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1999· 2 entries
Won Sir Hans Krebs Medal (1999).
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Prusiner founded the IND at UCSF
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1998· 3 entries
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science (1998).
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“The idea that scrapie prions were composed of an amyloidogenic protein was truly heretical when it was introduced”
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1997· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection.
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1997).
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1997).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1997).
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For his work in proposing an explanation for the cause of scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy and human prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
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And a member of the American Philosophical Society (1998) and the National Academy of Medicine (1992)
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Keio Medical Science Prize (1996).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University (1996).
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Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1996).
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Neuropsychiatric Research (1995).
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1995).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (1995).
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1994).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1994).
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And the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts (among them D
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1993· 3 entries
Awarded Richard Lounsbery Award (1993).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1993).
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Awarded Dickson Prize in Medicine (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Max Planck Research Award (1992).
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Potamkin Prize (1991).
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Awarded Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease (1991).
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1974· 1 entry
Prusiner joined the faculty of the UCSF Department of Neurology
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-05-28.
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