Nobel laureate David Julius will present the second Senior Vice Chancellor’s Laureate Lecture of the year on May 7.

Julius, chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, will present “Gut Feelings: Probing Mechanisms of Visceral Pain.”

Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, professor at Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their breakthrough discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. Julius continues this work by exploring how sensory systems allow humans to perceive the world.

Julius earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984, followed by postdoctoral studies at Columbia University.
 

This event is part of the Senior Vice Chancellor’s Laureate Lectures, a revival of the University of Pittsburgh’s series featuring some of the world’s top-tier scientists engaged in the most significant and dynamic biomedical research currently underway.

Julius’s lecture will be at 2 p.m. May 7, on the third floor of Alumni Hall as part of the Pittsburgh Pain Consortium's first Pain Day.