# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ardem-patapoutian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:42.050Z

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name: "Ardem Patapoutian"
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description: "Ardem Patapoutian is a Lebanese-American molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize laureate of Armenian descent. He is known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors that detect pressure, menthol, and temperature. Patapoutian is a neuroscience professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California. In 2021, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with David Julius."
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birthDate: "1967-10-02"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump