Prions


In 1997, Professor of neurology at UCSF, Stanley Prusiner, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the prion, a novel infectious...

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University of California ̵...


The field of bioengineering was pioneered at UCSD. Y.C. Fung, is the father of biomechanics, and was awarded the President’s...

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Emory University


In 1991, Stephen T. Warren, PhD, chair of the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, led an...

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University of Colorado


Top University of Colorado Discoveries: Discovery that the genetic messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) can act like an enzyme and...

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