STANLEY B. PRUSINER

1997 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection.

• Born: May 28, 1942
• Place of birth: U.S.A.
• Residence: San Francisco, U.S.A.
• Affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA

• Books by Stanley B Prusiner
• Prion Biology and Diseases (Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Series, No. 38)
• Books on Prion Diseases
• Books on Alzheimer's Disease
• Books on Kuru
• Books on Neuropathology
• Books on Neurodegenerative Diseases

• Official award announcement and background
• Illustrated Presentation
• Biography
• Curriculum Vitae
• Diploma
• Prize award ceremony
• Prion Diseases and the BSE Crisis by Stanley B. Prusiner
• Prusiner Recognized for Once-Heretical Prion Theory - an article in Science
• DC Gajdusek and BS Blumberg 1976 Nobel Prize winning research on kuru
• PubMedline search results for this laureate
• PubMedline search results for prions

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• A backgrounder on prions in the context of the Mad Cow Disease
• The Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Scientific American prion article by Dr. Prusiner (submitted by Bob Hadsell)
• CNN coverage of Dr. Prusiner's prizewinning experience
• Die Nobelpreise 1997 in deutscher Sprache (submitted by Olaf Fritsche)
• creativity of dr pruisner (submitted by lawrence dempsey md (neurosurgeon))
• Winner of the 1993 Gairdner International Award
• Nobel Gas - a Slate article on Stanley Prusiner and his Prize
• The Game of the Name is Fame. But is it Science? - an article from Discover
• What are prions? - an article from OneWorld News Service
• Scientific America article, "The Prion Diseases" (submitted by Carmeen K Hoover)
• ! GALILEI - GLOBAL DIRECTORY OF UNIVERSITIES (submitted by Rene Osella)
• Mad Cow and Human Prion Disease (submitted by Richard Schuerger)
• Stanley B. Prusiner: New & used books: Find the Lowest Price (submitted by Davis)
• 1998 Gamow Lecture Program: Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner (submitted by Jackson)
• Prion, Pathology (submitted by Mike)
• Stanley B. Prusiner – Autobiography (submitted by Peter)
• Onmeda.de über Stanley B. Prusiner (submitted by Onmeda.de)
• Onmeda.de über Rinderwahn (submitted by Onmeda.de)
• Stanlry Prusiner Biography from Encyclopedia Briannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• Stanley B. Prusiner (submitted by Lukas)
• Bovine Spongeiforme Enzephalopathie (submitted by Optikur)
• Hilfe bei Alzheimer (submitted by Anonymous)
• Christiane Herzog (submitted by Frank)

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