스탠리 B. 프루시너

소개

스탠리 벤저민 프루시너(영어: Stanley Benjamin Prusiner, 1942년 5월 28일 ~ )는 미국의 신경학자, 생화학자이다. 1997년에 감염을 일으키는 단백질 분자인 프리온을 발견한 공로로 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific theory considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts beginning in the early 1970s.