Nobel Prize 2021: Physiology/Medicine

Abstract

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch” on Monday, 4 October 2021 by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. Independently of one another, both David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian used the chemical substance menthol to identify TRPM8, a receptor that was shown to be activated by cold.