Stanley Prusiner, MD

Director, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor, Department of Neurology
M_Neurology
+1 415 476-4482

Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, is a professor of neurology and biochemistry and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF. While at the university, Dr. Prusiner discovered an unprecedented class of pathogens that he named prions. Prions are infectious proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases in animals and humans.

Dr. Prusiner’s contributions to scientific research have been internationally recognized with numerous prizes including the Richard Lounsbery Award, the Albert Lasker Award and the Nobel Prize.

Editor of 11 books and more than 500 research articles, Dr. Prusiner holds 50 issued or allowed United States patents, all of which are assigned to the University of California.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society, London

Dr. Prusiner received his undergraduate and medical training at the University of Pennsylvania and his postgraduate clinical training at UCSF.

Publications

Propagation of prions causing synucleinopathies in cultured cells.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Woerman AL, Stöhr J, Aoyagi A, Rampersaud R, Krejciova Z, Watts JC, Ohyama T, Patel S, Widjaja K, Oehler A, Sanders DW, Diamond MI, Seeley WW, Middleton LT, Gentleman SM, Mordes DA, Südhof TC, Giles K, Prusiner SB

Salivary prions in sheep and deer.

Prion

Tamgüney G, Richt JA, Hamir AN, Greenlee JJ, Miller MW, Wolfe LL, Sirochman TM, Young AJ, Glidden DV, Johnson NL, Giles K, DeArmond SJ, Prusiner SB

Prions.

Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology

Colby DW, Prusiner SB

Genes contributing to prion pathogenesis.

The Journal of general virology

Tamgüney G, Giles K, Glidden DV, Lessard P, Wille H, Tremblay P, Groth DF, Yehiely F, Korth C, Moore RC, Tatzelt J, Rubinstein E, Boucheix C, Yang X, Stanley P, Lisanti MP, Dwek RA, Rudd PM, Moskovitz J, Epstein CJ, Cruz TD, Kuziel WA, Maeda N, Sap J, Ashe KH, Carlson GA, Tesseur I, Wyss-Coray T, Mucke L, Weisgraber KH, Mahley RW, Cohen FE, Prusiner SB

Human prions and plasma lipoproteins.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Safar JG, Wille H, Geschwind MD, Deering C, Latawiec D, Serban A, King DJ, Legname G, Weisgraber KH, Mahley RW, Miller BL, Dearmond SJ, Prusiner SB

Prion clearance in bigenic mice.

The Journal of general virology

Safar JG, DeArmond SJ, Kociuba K, Deering C, Didorenko S, Bouzamondo-Bernstein E, Prusiner SB, Tremblay P

Diagnosis of human prion disease.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Safar JG, Geschwind MD, Deering C, Didorenko S, Sattavat M, Sanchez H, Serban A, Vey M, Baron H, Giles K, Miller BL, Dearmond SJ, Prusiner SB

Cytosolic prion protein in neurons.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Mironov A, Latawiec D, Wille H, Bouzamondo-Bernstein E, Legname G, Williamson RA, Burton D, DeArmond SJ, Prusiner SB, Peters PJ

The PrP-like protein Doppel binds copper.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Qin K, Coomaraswamy J, Mastrangelo P, Yang Y, Lugowski S, Petromilli C, Prusiner SB, Fraser PE, Goldberg JM, Chakrabartty A, Westaway D

Prions in skeletal muscle.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Bosque PJ, Ryou C, Telling G, Peretz D, Legname G, DeArmond SJ, Prusiner SB

Prions.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Prusiner SB

Prions and prion proteins.

FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Stahl N, Prusiner SB

Prions.

Scientific American

Prusiner SB

Viroids and prions.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Diener TO, McKinley MP, Prusiner SB