Stanley Ben Prusiner was born May 28, 1942 was born in Des Moines, Iowa and spent his childhood in Des Moines and Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Walnut Hills High School. Stanley is an American neurologist and biochemist. Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein.
He Early life and career was very important, he recived a lot of award. Prusiner received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his prion research. Prusiner then completed an internship in medicine at the University of California,
After three years at NIH, Prusiner returned to UCSF to complete a residency in neurology, San Francisco.
The prices that Prusier won there are this ones:
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997
- National Academy of Science in 1992
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in1993,
- The Royal Society 1996
- The American Philosophical Society 1998
- The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 200
- The Wolf Prize in Medicine from the Wolf Foundation/State of Israel 1996
- The Gairdner Foundation International Award 1993
- The National Medal of Science 2010
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997
I chose this person because in my point of view Stanley is very interesting for all the peolple because what he did
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