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Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., is Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his undergraduate and medical training at the Univ. of Pennsylvania and his clinical training at UCSF. He is editor of 12 books and author of 330+ research articles. Prusiner is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society, London. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer’s Disease Research from the American Academy of Neurology; Richard Lounsberry Award for Extraordinary Scientific Research in Biology and Medicine from the National Academy of Sciences; Gairdner Foundation International Award; Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; Paul Ehrlich Prize from the Federal Republic of Germany; Wolf Prize in Medicine from the State of Israel; Keio International Award for Medical Science; Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University; and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Prusiner discovered an entirely new class of pathogens, an infectious protein that he called a “prion” that replicates without nucleic acid. His work has created a new field of research that has resulted in revolutionary studies and progress in understanding degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
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