Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1997
Stanley B. Prusiner received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of prions - a new biological principle of infection. The Nobel committee highlighted this contribution for its lasting importance to the field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.