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Trio Wins Nobel Medicine Prize for Optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries behind optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control activity in individual nerve cells and study the brain.
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About Georg Nagel
Georg Nagel is a biophysicist and professor at the Department for Neurophysiology at the University of Würzburg in Germany. His research is focused on microbial photoreceptors and the development of optogenetic tools. He obtained the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2026 for his work in optogenetics.
Everything about Georg Nagel →- Occupation
- botanist, university teacher, biophysicist, biologist
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- August 24, 1953, 1953