On Monday, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.” Fellow Kirstin Matthews praises their research on how capsaicin and TRP affect nerve cells as an accomplishment made possible by U.S. federal funding for and support of science. Read her post on the Baker Institute Blog.
Oct. 5, 2021, 10:38 a.m.
Bindi Naik-Mathuria, MD, MPH, FACS, FAAP, is the fellow in firearm injury prevention and safety at the Center for Health and Biosciences and a pediatric surgeon and researcher. She is an associate professor of surgery and pediatrics at Baylor College …
Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Ph.D., is the dean of social sciences at Rice University, where she is also the director of the Urban Health Program at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and a Rice scholar at the Baker Institute. Her …
