One of today's two winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, David Julius, is a Cal PhD alum and worked with Cal Prof. Randy Schekman, himself a Nobel Laureate, and Cal Prof. Jeremy Thorner. The Nobel was for work on how we sense temperature and touch.

That's where Cal is the best- Nobels.

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One of today's two winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, David Julius, is a Cal PhD alum and worked with Cal Prof. Randy Schekman, himself a Nobel Laureate, and Cal Prof. Jeremy Thorner. The Nobel was for work on how we sense temperature and touch.

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Yep. He currently works at UCSF. And his co-winner is a UCLA grad working at Scripps.

A great day for the UC system - the best public education system in the world…..

How 3 Cal Berkeley dropouts are taking Nobel Prize findings to next level

The three dropouts are working with leading research institutions, including Stanford, UCSF, Cal, Harvard and MIT.

https://abc7news.com/stanford-cal-berkeley-nobel-prize-bioinformaticians/11081918/

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"We were very disappointed by the results of online school. It was very disengaging," said 23-year-old Alfredo Andere from Mexico.

Andere and fellow Berkeley undergrads Kenny Workman and Kyle Giffin dropped out to start up Latch Bio in San Francisco. After working at Facebook, Google and at research labs, they recognized a need to accelerate the groundbreaking genetic research for which Jennifer Doudna received the Nobel Prize last year.

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