The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to two Americans for the discovery of temperature and touch receptors, possibly paving the way for the development of new, non-opioid pain killers.
Oct. 4, 2021 -- at the University of California, San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA,
Alfred Nobel was “very clear in his will when he listed the criteria” for the physiology or medicine prize,Juleen Zierath, professor of physiology at Karolinska Institutet, and a member of the Nobel Assembly. “Very often those basic discoveries become useful to humankind in more direct ways many years after the award, but at the time we make decisions, the immediate practical benefit is sometimes obscure.”
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