Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel receive 2026 medicine Nobel for optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries leading to optogenetics.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work that led to optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control the activity of selected cells.
Nature reported that their work established tools used to study neural circuits and other biological systems with light-sensitive proteins.