The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 |
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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 to Stanley B. Prusiner, for his discovery of "prions - a new biological principle of infection". |
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Stanley B.
Prusiner was born in 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa,
USA. Since 1968 he has been a professor in neurology,
biochemistry, and virology at the University of
California in San Francisco, and in
Berkeley. |