German and US scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics

🌐 Rappler (Philippines) — 2026-10-05

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The work established tools for investigating how neural activity operates in the brain.

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel were selected for their 'discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics'

Health Nobel Prize optogenetics Karl Deisseroth Peter Hegemann Georg Nagel neuroscience

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German and US scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics

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