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• International · 2026-10-06

  Nobel Prize in Medicine Recognises Optogenetics Breakthrough

  Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of light-gated ion channels and the development of optogenetics. This technique enables researchers to control neuronal activity using light, fundamentally transforming neuroscience research.

• International · 2026-10-05

  Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of optogenetics technique

  The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University in the United States, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg in Germany. They were recognised for their discoveries of light-gated ion channels and the development of optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control specific neurons. Since its development in the mid-2000s, optogenetics has become one of the most important tools in neuroscience research.

• International · 2026-10-11

  2026 Nobel Prizes honour optogenetics, neutrino astronomy and asymmetric catalysis

  The 2026 Nobel Prizes recognized major scientific breakthroughs: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the Medicine prize for developing optogenetics, a technique using light to control neurons that has become essential in neuroscience research. Francis Halzen won Physics for leading the IceCube Observatory, which detected high-energy neutrinos and revolutionized cosmic observation.