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.
Deepak Srivastava, M.D., is the Baker Institute Nonresident Scholar for Biomedical Research Policy. He is the Younger Family Director and senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, as well as director of Gladstone’s Roddenberry Stem Cell Center. At …
Zubin Master, Ph.D., is a nonresident scholar in the Center for Health and Biosciences. He is an associate professor of biomedical ethics at the Biomedical Ethics Research Program and the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Mayo Clinic in …
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The Texas Collaborative Center for Hepatocellular Cancer (TeCH) at Baylor College of Medicine will host …
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