“Any country that wants to have strong research needs funding from its people and government,” says David Julius, a co-winner this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Julius, a professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, was awarded the prize along with Ardem Patapoutian, a Beirut-born neuroscientist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute, in San Diego, California. (See a related article, “Nobel Laureate Ardem Patapoutian’s Path to the Prize Started in Beirut.”)