Prusiner

Ever since neurologist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco identified infectious prions as a cause of neurodegenerative disease in 1982, the quest for treatments has come up short.

As a medical resident at UCSF, she contributed to Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s pioneering work on prions—infectious proteins that cause rare neurological disorders.

This, at least, is the prion hypothesis as promulgated by biologist Stanley Prusiner, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1997 for the idea.

Dr. Stanley Prusiner, at the University of California, San Francisco, coined the term prion and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the diseases.

Dr. Stanley Prusiner, at the University of California, San Francisco, coined the term prion and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for research on the diseases.