The Passano Foundation
David Julius, Ph.D., a pioneer in sensory neurobiology, will receive the 2010 Passano Award for his discovery of the molecular mechanism of thermosensation and his elucidation of the manner in which temperature and pain sensation are integrated.
1999 Passano Laureates Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
The charter of the Passano Foundation
limits its support to further scientific research
and to make an annual award to recognize
outstanding research done in the United States.
