Karl Deisseroth, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine, explains the future of optogenetics discovery
- Posted on October 5, 2026
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Karl Deisseroth, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine, explains the future of optogenetics discovery
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their work in optogenetics, a field of neuroscience that looks at the activity of individual neurons to link them to specific behaviors.
