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Bert Sakmann

Cell physiologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine for the patch clamp technique

Germany · b. 1942

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Physiologist who developed the patch clamp technique with Erwin Neher at the Max Planck Institute, allowing the current through a single ion channel to be recorded. Shared the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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This was an unexpected benefit let’s say. There is a new class of diseases that came up in the last, yes I would say 10 years, they are called channelopathies. This means diseases related to defects in the function of ion channels and all of a sudden ion channels and electrical signals, which we’re not very popular for the general public because it’s somewhat difficult to understand how electrical signal comes about and that we all run on electrical signals but this development of finding channelopathies is quite, you know, rewarding I would say

Recorded Marika Griehsel, 53rd meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, July 2003 source ↗

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