“The Prion Story”: Lecture by Stanley B. Prusiner, Nobel Prize winner and prions discoverer
Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for the discovery of prions, with which he provided an explanation for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as “mad cow disease”. He presented very clearly in his lecture the role played by prions in causing various neurodegenerative diseases: Each of these diseases – ranging from Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia to Parkinson’s disease – is triggered by specific prions.
