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Pioneering Scientific Discoveries

For his innovative research on the neuroscience of pain, David Julius received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

How it’s done

  1. Over his decades-long career, 2021 Nobel Prize laureate David Julius worked to identify and understand the molecular mechanisms involved in our senses of touch and pain.

  2. UCSF physicians treated a patient with severe depression using the equivalent of a pacemaker for the brain.

  3. Researchers successfully developed a “speech neuroprosthesis” that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate.

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Spanning the Bay

With more than 20 locations throughout San Francisco and beyond, UC San Francisco is an industry of its own, contributing greatly to the intellectual vigor and economic vitality of the Bay Area.