Stanley Prusiner, Nobel 1997). Daniel Carleton Gajdusek został uhonorowany również w Polsce – w 1995 roku otrzymał tytuł doktora honoris causa Akademii Medycznej w Łodzi.
Publikacje naukowe Jest autorem lub współautorem wielu publikacji, m.in.: Epidemiology of Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis in Eastern Siberia Family Clustering of Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis in Traditional and New Geographic Regions Natural and experimental oral infection of nonhuman primates by bovine spongiform encephalopathy agents Genetic studies in relation to Kuru. III. Distribution of the inherited serum group-specific protein (Gc) phenotypes in New Guineans: An association of Kuru and the Gc Ab phenotype Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-Parkinsonism-dementia complex on Guam: a review and summary of attempts to demonstrate infection as the aetiology Isolation and characterization of the subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies of man: kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Early images of kuru and the people of Okapa Kuru and its contribution to medicine New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent: Threshold survival after ashing at 600 °C suggests an inorganic template of replication Phenotype-genotype studies in kuru: Implications for new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob