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Nobel Prize crowns UCSF prion theory after skepticism
Dr. Stanley Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering prions, the brain-eroding proteins linked to diseases such as Creutzfeldt Jakob and scrapie. The award, amid years of disbelief, validates a bold, controversial line of research and its potential to illuminate neurodegenerative illnesses.
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Stanley Prusiner
University of California-San Francisco
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Stephen Hauser
UCSF
Stephen DeArmond
CSF
Byron Caughey
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
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Ashley Haase
University of Minnesota
Fred Cohen
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Richard Rhodes