Prusiner

American  

[proo-zi-ner] / ˈpru zɪ nər /

noun

1. Stanley Ben 1942–, American biochemist.

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Prusiner Scientific  

/ pro̅o̅′sĭ-nər /

1. American biochemist who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discovery of prions.

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Example Sentences

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.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2017

That same year, Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for identifying the causal mechanism of kuru and other so-called prion diseases, a discovery that would profoundly influence the Baxleys.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

One potentially prionlike protein may cause several diseases, according to a study published this summer by Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, who discovered prions in the 1980s.

From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2015

The paper was co-authored by Nobel Prize–winner Stanley Prusiner, he notes, which may have boosted its citation count to its current number of 103.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 25, 2015

Prusiner, who was also at the dinner in Scotland with Masters and Beyreuther, was apparently wrong about the replication mechanism.

From Nature • Jul. 13, 2011