Senior Manager’s note: Welcome to the 15th episode of The Pain Beat. Launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, The Pain Beat brings together the world's leading pain investigators with the purpose of sparking dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, scientific director of The Pain Beat, the podcasts feature open and spirited discussions about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward.
This 15th episode of The Pain Beat is the third and final of a three-part series discussing the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – awarded to David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, US, and Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, California, US – for their work on molecules important for somatosensation (see PRF related interview here, PRF related news story here, part one of this series here, and part two of this series here). In this episode, The Pain Beat spoke with a group of collaborators and former mentees to discuss what the discoveries mean for the somatosensory field, as well as stories and insights about what it was like working with Drs. Julius and Patapoutian during that time.
Podcast participants include:
- Allan Basbaum, PhD, FRS, University of California, San Francisco, US
- Diana Bautista, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, US
- Alexander Chesler, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, US
- Ellen Lumpkin, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, US
- Tayler Sheahan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, US (host)
Basbaum, Bautista, Chesler, Lumpkin, and Sheahan
Listen below and consider leaving a comment on the podcast at the bottom of this page (All The Pain Beat podcasts are also available on Apple Podcasts here and on Spotify here).
PRF thanks Gary Hobish for providing the audio mastering for this podcast and Kevin Seal for creating the music.
The Pain Beat was launched and is supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional support from the Rita Allen Foundation.