David Julius

Awards

1. 2010

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For his seminal discoveries of molecular mechanisms by which the skin senses painful stimuli and temperature and produces pain hypersensitivity.

2. 2017

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For determining the molecular basis of somatosensation- how we sense heat, cold and pain.

3. 2020

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for discovering molecules, cells, and mechanisms underlying pain sensation.

4. 2021

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch