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	<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, M.D. is a Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
		Prusiner received both his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and his M.D. from Penn. Prusiner then completed an internship in medicine at UCSF.
		Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Prusiner spent his childhood in Des Moines and Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Walnut Hills High School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_B._Prusiner (237 words)

	Nobel laureate <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner to speak at UI April 6
		Nobel laureate <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner to speak at UI April 6
		Prusiner is director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and professor of neurology and biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
		Prusiner's lecture, "Prions and the Brain," is a regional event sponsored by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2000/march/0327prusiner.html (398 words)

	Nobel Gas - Sure, <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner deserves a prize--for his persistence, not for his prions. By Gary Taubes
		Prusiner could have interpreted this to mean that the protein in his prion rods was also produced naturally by the body (which indeed turned out to be the case) and was therefore unlikely to be part of the scrapie agent.
		Prusiner and his unorthodox prion have taken a field of research that seemed unlikely ever to extend beyond the concerns of the victims of slow virus diseases--sheep, cannibals, and the one in a million people stricken with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)--and turned it into a big-money, high-profile enterprise.
		Prusiner, on the other hand, reported that he had found the RNA in the spleen of hamsters (although still not in proportion to the amount of infectivity), and said that Haase and Chesebro must have missed it.
	slate.msn.com /id/2096/sidebar/42786 (6809 words)

	Long-Time NIH Grantee <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner Wins Nobel Prize: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, M.D., a long-time grantee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of an unusual class of infectious particles called prions.
		Overview <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, M.D., a long-time grantee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of an unusual class of infectious particles called prions.
		Prusiner, who is professor of neurology, virology, and biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has received more than 56 million dollars in research grant support from NIH during the last three decades.
	www.ninds.nih.gov /news_and_events/press_releases/pressrelease_prions_100697.htm (556 words)

	Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, C'64, M'68
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, who took his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the College and an M.D. from Penn Med, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work in discovering the agent that may cause such brain diseases as Mad Cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
		Prusiner was the first researcher to suspect that a protein, which does not contain the genes or genetic material that allows viruses and bacteria to reproduce themselves, could cause disease.
		Prusiner began his work to identify the infective agent in these diseases and, in 1982, identified the agent as a single protein.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /sasalum/newsltr/fall97/Prusiner.html (590 words)

	InPro Biotechnology
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, M.D. is Founder and Chairman of the Board of InPro Biotechnology.
		Under the direction and leadership of Nobel laureate Dr. <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, InPro Biotechnology, Inc. brings 30 years of prion research to the global campaign against diseases caused by mis-folded proteins known as prions.
		Prusiner is Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
	www.inprobiotech.com /about (312 words)

	CNN - American wins Nobel Prize for medicine - Oct 6, 1997
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, discovered prions, "an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents," the Nobel citation from Sweden's Karolinska Institute said.
		Physiology or Medicine 1997 - awarded to <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner "for his discovery of Prions — a new biological principle of infection"
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, M.D. - information on his research at the University of California, San Francisco
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/06/nobel (511 words)

	Prion Researcher Wins Nobel Prize
		The committee chose Prusiner "for his pioneering discovery of an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents, and the elucidation of the underlying principles of their mode of action," according to a statement from the Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
		Prusiner was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
		The 55-year-old Prusiner, who is professor of neurology, virology, and biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, began his work on prions in 1972 after one of his patients died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a type of dementia thought to be transmitted by an infectious agent.
	www.personalmd.com /news/a1997100609.shtml (899 words)

	LGC: News:LGC News:Nobel Prize winner for medicine visits LGC in Teddington to see new robot in action
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner is Professor of neurology and biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
		Professor <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner won his Nobel prize for medicine in 1997 for his work on prions - a new class of infectious agents thought to underlie a variety of sporadic, transmissable and hereditary neurodegenerative disorders, including BSE, the sheep disease Scrapie, and CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), the human equivalent of BSE.
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner established InPro to make available technologies developed at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (University of California, San Francisco) and other leading prion research organisations.
	www.lgc.co.uk /press_release.asp?intElement=4515 (541 words)

	PNC Honors Five Renowned Achievers Who Have Enriched the World With Their Uncommon Gifts
		Prusiner, 61, is internationally renowned for his discovery of prions, protein particles which he identified as the cause of brain destroying diseases in animals and humans, including the fatal mad cow disease.
		Prusiner was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in medicine for his pioneering study of prions.
		Prusiner is director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-24-2004/0002158930&EDATE= (1295 words)

	UC scientists create protein particles that cause illness / Test-tube 'prions' could advance study of mad cow disease
		The new research is being reported today in the journal Science by Dr. Giuseppe Legname, a neurologist in the laboratory of senior author Dr. <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of prions nearly 25 years ago and has been working on their puzzles ever since.
		Prusiner's "prion hypothesis" has long provoked controversy among some scientists who have challenged his contention that the proteins alone, if they became folded into structures far different from normal prions, could actually reproduce themselves and cause disease even though they contain no DNA or RNA, the basic molecules of heredity.
		As part of the new study, Prusiner, Legname and their colleagues created a large fragment of a normal prion protein and folded it using lab techniques into an abnormal shape, which they suspected would give it the infectious properties of the faulty proteins.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/30/MNGGS7VRH11.DTL (631 words)

	University of Miami School of Medicine - Glossary - Prusiner, <b>Stanleyb> B.
		Prusiner, <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, <b>Stanleyb> B.: American neurologist (1942-) and winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of "prions - a new biological principle of infection."
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner has added prions to the list of well known infectious agents including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites."
		In 1972, Prusiner began a residency at UCSF in the department of neurology, where he became interested in a "slow virus" infection called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) and the seemingly related diseases -- kuru of the Fore people of New Guinea and scrapie of sheep.
	www.med.miami.edu /glossary/art.asp?articlekey=26278 (348 words)

	It’s PREE-on, Not PRI-on
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, a Nobel laureate, is also director of the Institute for Neuro-degenerative Diseases, and professor of neurology and biochemistry at UCSF.
		Prusiner felt that labeling this an unconventional virus — or slow, or delayed-acting virus — was not a good idea, and a new term was needed to distinguish this unprecedented pathogen-causing scrapie from both viruses and viroids.
		Prusiner proceeded to do intense research over the years to uncover information about this enigma.
	www.pall.com /bloodtransfusion/outlook/pree_on.asp (786 words)

	Prions may cause Alzheimers, says Nobel winner. Dr. <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner. Welcome to NeurologyChannel.com
		SEATTLE, Oct 20 (Reuters Health) -- Dr. <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, who won a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his discovery that prions cause certain neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, now suggests that prions may play a role in other neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
		Prusiner, of the University of California at San Francisco, explained that prion infection causes proteins in the brain to change from a normal spiral conformation to an abnormal conformation called a beta-sheet.
		Prusiner noted that "something is pushing this process, although we don't know what it is. It's not a chronic infection like AIDS, and it may be 10 different things." The search is on, he said, for drugs that prevent prion-induced abnormal protein folding.
	www.neurologychannel.com /NeurologyWorld/prions.shtml (283 words)

	Untitled
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and, after completing his residency and internship at the medical center at the University of California, San Francisco, joined the faculty in 1974 as an assistant professor of neurology.
		Prusiner has received numerous awards and honors, including the 1993 Gairdner Foundation International Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Medical Science, the 1994 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and the 1996 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
		More than 20 years ago, Dr. Prusiner began to compile evidence that these diseases are caused by prions, a unique biological agent that is made of only a protein, with no nucleic acid.
	www.bnl.gov /bnlweb/pubaf/pr/1996/bnlpr091096.html (405 words)

	A new innovation theory - the cause of mad cow disease
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner published a paper in Scientific American, in which he hypothesized that the process begins when one molecule of mutated PrP contacts a normal PrP molecule and induces it to refold into the mutated conformation.
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for his study in "prion" disease.
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner published a paper concerning prion disease in the Scientific American(01/95), in which he reported that 70 people contracted CJD following medical treatment involving the introduction of central nervous system tissue.
	www.sc-innovation.com /madcow.html (1010 words)

	<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, M.D. <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, M.D., a neurobiologist at the University of California at San Francisco, was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking discovery and definition of a new class of disease-causing agents called prions (pronounced pree-ons).
		Dr. Prusiner's award is the culmination of 25 years of sometimes controversial research on the prion, a natural human protein that, under certain conditions, can interact with other prion proteins, ultimately forming harmful deposits in the brain.
		AHAF also awarded a grant to Dr. Prusiner to study CJD and GSS, using molecular biology methods to introduce genes from mutated prion proteins into mice to create an animal model for these diseases.
	www.ahaf.org /alzdis/about/prusiner.htm (388 words)

	Local - The Enquirer - October 7, 1997
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, a 1960 graduate of Walnut Hills High School, is now a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco.
		Prusiner was rewarded for his 1982 discovery of "prions," proteins that cause brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow).
		Strauss, who has kept in touch with Dr. Prusiner since their days as graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, said Dr. Prusiner once lived on an island inhabited by cannibals to study brain diseases.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1997/10/07/loc_prusiner.html (426 words)

	<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, M.D. (born May 28, 1942) is a Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.
		Prusiner received both his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and his M.D. from Penn. Prusiner then completed an internship in medicine at UCSF.
		Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Prusiner spent his childhood in Des Moines and Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Walnut Hills High School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_B._Prusiner (270 words)

	NIH Record-11-03-98--Nobelist Prusiner Draws Homecoming Crowd
		Ironically, Prusiner, whose prizewinning studies of prions (a new class of pathogens that replicate without DNA) was built on work done at NINDS by Gibbs and fellow Nobel laureate Dr. Carleton Gajdusek (who studied kuru and scrapie), says he "learned nothing about kuru at NIH" during his tenure as a clinical associate.
		Self-deprecating, low-key and funny, Prusiner presented a dense analysis of prion activity at the molecular level, positing five sites of possible treatment "interdiction" for a deadly pathogen that he first saw evidence of in a 60-year-old woman back in 1972.
		Prusiner then launched into a talk -- "Prion Biology and Diseases: A Saga of Skeptical Scientists, Mad Cows, and Laughing Cannibals" -- that liberally credited his mentors, chiefly NHLBI's Dr. Earl Stadtman and NIMH's Dr. Louis Sokoloff, as well as a host of current NIH scientists including Drs.
	www.nih.gov /news/NIH-Record/11_03_98/story02.htm (509 words)

	Health Report - 16/08/1999: Prions
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner: Yes, and the question I think in a larger sense is, will we find other proteins that behave in the same way as the prion protein, and then will we call all of these diseases prion diseases.
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner: Well it is sinister, in the sense that these diseases are all universally fatal, and we very much need to be able to design drugs that will stop these diseases.
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner thinks that all the neurodegenerative diseases are basically diseases of proteins taking the wrong shape, like prions.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s44356.htm (985 words)

	<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine
		Prion Diseases and the BSE Crisis by <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner
		<b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine
		Nobel Gas - a Slate article on <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner and his Prize
	almaz.com /nobel/medicine/1997a.html (239 words)

	10x12x97
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, MD, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, is a member of four FASEB constituent societies and is active in FASEB publications and leadership projects.
		Prusiner has current memberships in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Association of Immunologists, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the Protein Society.
		Prusiner is a Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.
	www.faseb.org /opar/newsletter/dec97/10x12x97.html (222 words)

	Press Release: 10-23-1997
		Dr. Prusiner, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, is honored for his ground breaking work on prions, a protein capable of transmitting degenerative neurological diseases.
		But in 1982, Dr. Prusiner stunned the scientific community by proposing that the infectious agent in scrapie--a neurodegenerative disease of sheep--was not a virus or bacteria, but a new agent containing only protein, which he called a prion.
		The Horwitz Prize committee selected Dr. Prusiner for the award in May. For several decades, scientists have believed that nucleic acids--either DNA or RNA--were required for the development of infection.
	cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/press_releases/10231997Prestigio.html (639 words)

	Prusiner, <b>Stanleyb> -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Prusiner, <b>Stanleyb> B. American neurologist whose discovery of the disease-causing protein called prion in 1982 won him the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
		For his discovery of an entirely new class of pathogen, the prion, <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner was awarded the 1997 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner was born on May 28, 1942, in Des Moines, Iowa.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313085?tocId=9313085 (698 words)

	History of Prions
		It was this disease that prompted <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner to search for the cause and how it worked.
		Prusiner also proposed that the way that this protein multiplied was not though genetic information like DNA or RNA, but rather through the conformation change of normal proteins into rogue proteins.
		It is short for "proteinaceous infectious particles." It was Prusiner who first proposed that these infectious proteins were the cause of the disease scrapie in sheep and more importantly Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
	www.rit.edu /~sbib350/posters/prionhistory.htm (360 words)

	The Pennsylvania Gazette: Dr. <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner
		Still, Dr. <b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, C'64, M'68, was notably gracious in October, after being notified that he had received that honor for a quarter-century of research linking protein particles he discovered in the brain, called prions, to mad-cow disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other fatal, brain-ravaging illnesses.
		Prusiner's faculty advisor at the Foundation was Dr. Helen C. Davies, Gr'60, a microbiology professor at the Medical School.
		As scientists still skeptical of his findings weighed in with their opinions, Prusiner said such doubts fuel continued research, and thus play an essential role in the scientific process.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/1197/1197pro3.html (403 words)

	Penn State News
		University Park, Pa. — Penn State’s Board of Trustees approved the recommendation today (July 14) that <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner, M.D., professor of neurology and biochemistry at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, be granted an honorary Doctorate of Science Degree at the College of Medicine commencement ceremony on May 20, 2001.
		Prusiner received the 1997 Nobel Prize in physiology and is recognized internationally for his contribution to the understanding of a new biological principle of infection.
		He discovered an entirely new class of pathogens, which he called "prions," that are composed only of protein and replicate without nucleic acid.
	www.psu.edu /ur/2000/bot13julhondegree.html (259 words)

	Mad Cow Disease in Canada
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner, director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, professor of neurology at UCSF, founder of InPro Biotechnology and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine in 1997
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner: "The highest levels of prions are found in the central nervous system, meaning brain and the spinal cord.
		<b>Stanleyb> Prusiner: "We've done a series of genetic engineering studies showing that the myocyte, or the actual muscle cell, is capable of making prions.
	www.organicconsumers.org /madcow/prusiner52303.cfm (1292 words)

	Scientific American: The 1997 Nobel Prizes
		THE PRION DISEASES <b>Stanleyb> B. Prusiner inScientific American, Vol.
		Prusiner believes that it is the buildup of this abnormal protein in the brain that causes the damage responsible for the characteristic dementia of prion diseases.
		Of Prusiner's numerous discoveries, possibly the most startling--and controversial--was that prions can reproduce without genetic material because they are forms of ubiquitous proteins found in humans and animals.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00082ED3-9DE8-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 (2142 words)

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