Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win 2026 Nobel Medicine Prize for optogenetics

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that enabled optogenetics. The technique uses light-sensitive ion channels to control nerve cells.

Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that led to optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to control nerve cells using light. The Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet said the three laureates were honoured for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels […]