Awards & Winners

Stanley B. Prusiner

Awards by Stanley B. Prusiner

Check all the awards nominated and won by Stanley B. Prusiner.

2009


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For his discovery of prions, the causative agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and other related neurodegenerative diseases, and his continuing efforts to develop effective methods for detecting and treating prion diseases.)

1997


Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection)

1996


Wolf Prize in Medicine
(For discovering prions, new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structute.)
Keio Medical Science Prize

1994


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For landmark, revolutionary work that established the existence of an entirely new class of infectious agents, and which opened new understanding of the pathogenesis of several baffling neurodegenerative diseases. )

1993


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For elucidating the role of a novel infectious particle in certain diseases of the nervous system.)