Trio awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for neuroscience discoveries

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 prize for their work on optogenetics.

Nobel Prize Awarded for Tool That Probes the Living Brain

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel were awarded the prize for their work on light-gated ion channels and ...
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Karl Deisseroth Wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for Optogenetics Breakthrough

Karl Deisseroth shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics, a technique using light to control nerve cells and ...
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Discovery of light-activated proteins and their application in neuroscience wins Nobel prize in medicine

Optogenetics has helped researchers better understand the brain and is enabling new treatments for neurological conditions ...
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UM School of Medicine Receives $2.9 Million in Federal Funding for Advanced Microscopy to Accelerate Neuroscience Discoveries

The School of Medicine’s University of Maryland - Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND) has received $2.9 million in federal funding to build a leading-edge advanced microscopy ...

U.S. and German scientists win Nobel Price in medicine for discoveries on optogenetics

American Karl Deisseroth, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with ...

MapLight Therapeutics Celebrates Co-Founder Dr. Karl Deisseroth on Receipt of 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the Development of Optogenetics

Award honors foundational discoveries in optogenetics and circuit mappingThese discoveries laid the foundation for a new era in neuroscience and ...
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Jupiter 'Brain Coast' leaders talk discoveries, concerns over funding

Leaders from the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, the FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience spoke during a May 20 "Business Before Hours" ...