Stanley Prusiner (born 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, considered a heretical idea but winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts.
Prusiner studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the UCSF. After 3 years of research at the National Institutes of Health, he completed his residency in neurology at UCSF and then joined the faculty of the neurology department in 1974. Since that time, Prusiner has held various faculty and visiting faculty positions at both UCSF and UC Berkeley. Since 1999, Prusiner has been director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, working on prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies.
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