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MICHEL & IPEK

The 2024 Axel Kahn Prize is awarded jointly to Michel Barrot and Ipek Yalcin

Congratulations to Ipek Yalcin and Michel Barrot, team EURIDOL - Graduate School of Pain for the prize which rewards their remarkable work to understand the mechanisms of the anxiodepressive consequences of chronic pain and the mechanism of analgesic action of certain antidepressants. Discoveries…

Optical control of PIEZO1 channels

"PIEZO proteins are unusually large, mechanically-activated trimeric ion channels. The central pore features structural similarities with the pore of other trimeric ion channels, including purinergic P2X receptors, for which optical control of channel gating has been previously achieved with…

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