{"id":158550,"date":"2024-02-01T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ysmu.am\/news\/nobelyan-arajin-hayazgi-dapnekir-ard\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T12:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T08:50:03","slug":"nobelyan-arajin-hayazgi-dapnekir-ard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ysmu.am\/en\/news\/nobelyan-arajin-hayazgi-dapnekir-ard\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 13 rules to do science by the first Armenian Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Ardem Patapoutian, the first Armenian Nobel laureate, Honorary Doctor of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, outstanding American-Armenian scientist, molecular biologist and neurobiologist; shared his top 13 rules to do science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We have carefully selected them below for our readers.<\/p>\n

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  1. Don\u2019t be too busy (Rule #1: No excuses. If you are too busy, you are not being creative).<\/li>\n
  2. Learn to say no (related to #1).<\/li>\n
  3. What question to ask: find the biggest unanswered question that can be approached in the next 5-10 years.<\/li>\n
  4. Science communication: when you talk about your work, always start by stating what the important open question is (this is fundamental, but very few do it, related to #3).<\/li>\n
  5. Prioritize: know when to quit a project (as important as coming with new ideas).<\/li>\n
  6. Change fields when the open questions are no longer interesting: being from a different field allows you to look at problems with a fresh perspective.<\/li>\n
  7. Ask for help \u2013 don\u2019t reinvent the wheel.<\/li>\n
  8. Don\u2019t listen to advice if it doesn\u2019t make sense to you (this does not contradict #7).<\/li>\n
  9. Hire people who are smart, efficient, and kind (don\u2019t forget about \u201ckind\u201d).<\/li>\n
  10. Champion the underprivileged.<\/li>\n
  11. Collaborate with people with very different training and experience.<\/li>\n
  12. Cultivate friends who tell you when you are wrong.<\/li>\n
  13. Don\u2019t forget why you got into this business in the first place: science is fun. Minimize the noise that causes anxiety.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ardem Patapoutian was the 9th Nobel laureate who visited the Medical University in 2022. The famous scientist visited the “COBRAIN” Center for Basic Brain Research of YSMU, where he planted the seed of a plant called Arabidopsis thaliana: as a result of the research of that very plant the neurobiologist obtained the molecular basis of the sense of touch<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

    Ardem Patapoutian\u00a0was born to an\u00a0Armenian\u00a0family in\u00a0Beirut, Lebanon.\u00a0He attended the Demirdjian and Hovagimian Armenian schools in Beirut.\u00a0He enrolled at the\u00a0American University of Beirut. He emigrated to the United States in 1986.\u00a0He received a\u00a0B.S. degree in cell and developmental biology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990, and a PhD degree in biology from the\u00a0California Institute of Technology\u00a0in 1996.<\/p>\n

    As a postdoctoral fellow, Patapoutian worked with Louis F. Reichardt at the\u00a0University of California, San Francisco. In 2000, he became an assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute.\u00a0Between 2000 and 2014, he had an additional research position for the Novartis Research Foundation.\u00a0Since 2014, Patapoutian has been an investigator for the\u00a0Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u00a0(HHMI).<\/p>\n

    In 2021, he won the\u00a0Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with David Julius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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