Education
Reed Wickner graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962.
Reed Wickner graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962.
In 1994 he proposed that the and phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a form of budding yeast, were caused by prion forms of native proteins - specifically, the Sup35p and Ure2p proteins, respectively. He then went to medical school at Georgetown University and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1966. He is (as of 2012) Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
His research interests pertain to prions and amyloid diseases.
National Academy of Sciences.
