How Do You Feel? The Molecules That Sense Touch
Marshall W. Nirenberg Lecture | to
Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Scripps Research
Ardem Patapoutian is an Armenian-American molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize laureate. He is known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors that detect pressure, menthol, and temperature. Patapoutian is a neuroscience professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California. In 2021, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with David Julius.
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