Stanley B. Prusiner

Awards

1. 1993

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For elucidating the role of a novel infectious particle in certain diseases of the nervous system.

2. 1994

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery of prions, a new class of infectious agents—opening the way to understanding baffling neurodegenerative diseases.

3. 1995/1996

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for discovering prions, new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structute.

4. 1997

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection