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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 Karl Deisseroth
Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist and physician. He is the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.
Everything about Karl Deisseroth →- Occupation
- psychiatrist, neuroscientist, university teacher, academic
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 18, 1971, 1971
- Website
- https://profiles.stanford.edu/karl-deisseroth