Nobel Prize Medicine 2021 to Julius and Patapoutian

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”. The announcement was made as usual by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm in Sweden, and broadcast live via the Internet and social networks. The recognition for this year is equal to 10 million Swedish kronor, at today’s exchange rate almost 986 thousand euros. WHO ARE THE WINNERS Julius was born on November 4, 1955 in New York. PhD in 1984 at the University of California at Berkeley, then postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York, in 1989 he was called to the University of California at San Francisco where he currently teaches. Patapoutian was born in 1967 in Beirut, in Lebanon. In his youth he moved from war-torn Beirut to the United States, to Los Angeles, where in 1996 he earned a PhD from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco and since 2000 has been in force at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, where he still teaches. Since 2014 he is also a researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.