Ardem Patapoutian

Ardem Patapoutian (* 1967 in Lebanon ) is a Lebanese- American molecular biologist and neuroscientist at Scripps Research in La Jolla , California .

Patapoutian attended the American University of Beirut before emigrating to the United States in 1986, which he accepted as citizenship. In 1990 he received a bachelor's degree in cell and developmental biology from Judy A. Lengyel at the University of California, Los Angeles , and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Barbara Wold at the California Institute of Technology. in biology. As a postdoctoral fellow , Patapoutian worked with Louis F. Reichardt at the Scripps Research Institute, where he received a professorship in 2000. Between 2000 and 2014 he had additional research work for the Novartis Research Foundation , and since 2014 Patapoutian has also been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Ardem Patapoutian researches the signal transduction of sensors . He was able to make significant contributions to the identification of novel ion channels and receptors that are activated by temperature, mechanical forces or increased cell volume. Patapoutian and co-workers were able to show that these ion channels play an outstanding role in the sensation of temperature , in the sensation of touch , in proprioception , in the sensation of pain and in the regulation of vascular tone . More recent work uses functional genomics techniques to identify and characterize mechanosensitive ion channels ( mechanotransduction ).

According to Google Scholar, Patapoutian has an h-index of 68, according to the Scopus database it has an h-index of 63 (as of May 2020). He has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2016, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2020 . In 2017 Patapoutian received the W. Alden Spencer Award , 2019 the Rosenstiel Award , and 2020 the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ardem Patapoutian. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar, accessed May 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Patapoutian, Ardem. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed on May 27, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Ardem Patapoutian. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences, accessed February 15, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Thirty-Ninth Annual W. Alden Spencer Award and Lecture. In: kavli.columbia.edu. The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, June 27, 2017, accessed February 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. In: brandeis.edu/rosenstiel. Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, accessed February 15, 2020 . 

Web links

• Ardem Patapoutian, PhD at Scripps Research (scripps.edu)
• The Patapoutian Lab (patapoutianlab.org)
• CV (PDF; 109 kB; as of November 2019)
• Ardem Patapoutian, PhD at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org)
• Ardem Patapoutian at Academic Tree (neurotree.org)