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American optogeneticist (born 1971)
Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist and physician. He is the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2026 for his work in optogenetics.
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German biophysicist (born 1954)
Peter Hegemann is a German biophysicist, Hertie Senior Research Chair for Neurosciences and a professor of Experimental Biophysics at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is known for his discovery of channelrhodopsin, a type of ion channels regulated by light, thereby serving as a light sensor. This created the field of optogenetics, a technique that controls the activities of specific neurons by applying light.
More on Wikipedia ↗Karl A. Deisseroth ’92 was one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”