Stanley B. Prusiner

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gptkbp:instanceOf scientist
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_California,_San_Francisco
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_California,_San_Francisco
gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine
gptkbp:birthDate 1932-05-28
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Des_Moines,_Iowa,_USA
gptkbp:children 2
gptkbp:deathDate nan
gptkbp:deathPlace nan
gptkbp:field biochemistry
neurology
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Stanley B. Prusiner
gptkbp:image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Stanley_B._Prusiner.jpg/800px-Stanley_B._Prusiner.jpg
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Richard_J._Roberts
gptkb:James_D._Watson
gptkbp:influences gptkb:David_Baltimore
gptkb:Harold_Varmus
gptkbp:inventor prion diseases
prion theory
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
gptkbp:knownFor discovery of prions
prion hypothesis
Nobel_Prize_winner
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Robert_H._Miller
gptkbp:researchContribution understanding of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
understanding of Alzheimer's disease
understanding of mad cow disease
understanding of scrapie
understanding_of_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease
gptkbp:researchFocus molecular biology
genetics
public health
cell biology
neurodegenerative diseases
clinical research
biomedical research
therapeutics
pathology
vaccine development
neurobiology
biophysics
diagnostics
protein misfolding
infectious agents
infectious proteins
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Cynthia_Prusiner
gptkbp:website http://prion.ucla.edu