October 2021 October 6—GlaxoSmithKline’s Mosquirix vaccine against malaria has been approved by the World Health Organization. Did you know that one of its inventors, Dr. Joe Cohen, earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1977 from the City University of New York for research on genetics and control of gene expression in yeast? Learn more about Dr. Cohen and the malaria vaccine. October 4—The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature (TRPV1) and touch (PIEZO2). August 2021 August 14—Dr. Saxena’s scholarly collaborative research on a mechanosensitive receptor called PIEZO1 reveals how physical forces shape our innate immunity and regulate tumor suppressor gene expression in cancer and infectious disease. The study is published in Science Immunology.
