UCSF physiology professor David Julius wins Nobel Prize for pain research

by Staff, Bay City News October 5, 2021October 5, 2021

David Julius, professor and chair of UCSF's Department of Physiology, receives a congratulatory hug after winning the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences on Sept. 5, 2019. Julius has a new honor to celebrate — the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine, which he won this week for his research on pain response. (Photo by Noah Berger, courtesy of UC San Francisco)

A physiology professor from University of California, San Francisco has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for work on pain sensation.

David Julius is professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UC San Francisco and the Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine.

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