Last Thursday 2nd June at 11:00 CEST we had the honour of the visit of Dr. David Julius, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2021, in the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques de Catalunya i Balears (Barcelona). The event was streamed online, as a webinar, free for all interested public.

The main focus of the event was the decovery of the receptor TRPV1, that allow us to understand how heat, pungency and pain is perceived, as well as the roll of these TRP receptors (TRPV1, TRPA1, TRPM8) in different diseases and conditions. 

In addition, Prof. Pere Clavé showed his research group studies’, Gastroenterology and Motility Lab, about the location and expression of these receptors in the human oropharynx, and their experience using this receptor TRP as a therapeutic goal for an active pharmacological treatment of oropharyngeal disphagia associated with aging and neurological diseases.