The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
Awarded on: 2021-10-04
"for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch"
Affiliations:
- University of California – San Francisco, CA, USA
David Julius
Born: 1955-11-04 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
Biography
David Jay Julius is an American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat, including the characterization of the TRPV1 and TRPM8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.