Posted inScience, Nature & Technology

Stanford professor wins Nobel Prize for breakthrough in nerve cell control using light

A Stanford University professor was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering work that helped give scientists an unprecedented way to control and study nerve cells using light. Karl Deisseroth, a professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, […]

Register

We'll create a new account for .

Sign up for newsletters

Get the best of Local News Matters directly in your email inbox.

Sending to:

Gift this article