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Over the next 15 years, Prusiner won over virtually everyone to his prion hypothesis--the lay press, the scientific press--but not the researchers in his field.
Although Prusiner's work had not been replicated by anyone and he had still not published these supposedly seminal findings that prions cause disease in a peer-reviewed journal, he won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award in October 1994.
Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
In the past year, Science and Nature , the two most distinguished scientific journals, have published three major papers suggesting that the causative agents of these diseases are not prions, and that Prusiner's 15 years of prion research is simply wrong.
Prusiner has received in the neighborhood of $40 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health since 1985.