The 2023 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Professorship Lecture

“May the Force be with you! Piezo channels in sensory physiology and disease”

Ardem Patapoutian, PhD

Presidential Endowed Chair in Neurobiology
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Scripps Research
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Thursday, April 25, 2024
4:30 p.m.

Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168th St., 1st Floor
Reception to follow in the Schaefer Awards Gallery

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™

Biography

Ardem Patapoutian, PhD

Dr. Patapoutian is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Neurobiology and professor at Scripps Research and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His laboratory has identified the molecules that sense temperature and pressure involved in touch, pain, and regulating blood pressure. Dr. Patapoutian is of Armenian descent and was born in Lebanon. He immigrated to the USA in 1986. He received a BS from University of California, Los Angeles in 1990 and his PhD from California Institute of Technology in 1996. He performed postdoctoral training at University of California, San Francisco and joined the faculty of Scripps Research in 2000. He held a joint appointment at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation from 2000 to 2014, serving as director of Discovery Research. Dr. Patapoutian is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) and a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020). He is a recipient of the 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, the 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.