GoKawiil2026 Nobel in Medicine awarded for optogenetics to Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for developing optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to control neurons using light. The foundational research behind the method dates back to the early 2000s, and the field previously received the Brain Prize in 2013, which also recognized three other scientists not included in this year's Nobel.