Ardem Patapoutian is a molecular biologist and physiologist.

His laboratory identified the molecules that sense temperature and pressure involved in touch, pain, and regulating blood pressure.

In 2021, Patapoutian shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Julius for their discoveries related to temperature and touch receptors.

Patapoutian was born in Lebanon in 1967 and immigrated to the USA in 1986. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in the US in 1990. He received his PhD from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1996. In 2000, he joined the faculty of Scripps Research and he is currently the presidential endowed chair in neurobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020). He is a co-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 (all shared with David Julius).

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