Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for optogenetics

#OTD in 2015, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist & malariologist Tu Youyou won the #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria." The therapy saved millions of lives—particularly across Asia, Africa, and South America. #wow #WomenInSTEM

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel and their American colleague Karl Deisseroth for winning this year's Nobel Prize for medicine. Their research marks a breakthrough in our understanding of the human brain.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to scientists who discovered how to turn brain cells on and off, and what I’m most wondering right now is how much for them to install that switch in my brain

Why optogenetics deserves the hype www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/09/why-... (a piece I wrote in 2013 explaining how it works and why modulating specific cell types is so key to understanding how neural circuits and systems work)

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: One American and two Germans honored for technique activating neurons with light

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded for discoveries in neuroscience. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel were recognized for work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique using tiny lights to activate neurons in the brain www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

The creators of a powerful way to control brain cells with light, which has clarified nerve circuits in healthy and diseased brains, have been honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4dlInGs

I sat in on the interview of @deisseroth.bsky.social for an NIH Director's Pioneer Award (which he subsequently received). It is remarkable how much what he presented about his vision for optogenetics played out from work in his and other labs over the next decade. Bioengineering meets Psychiatry

Related to the #NobelPrize in #Optogenetics: I'm reflecting on the question "who invented X?" in science. 10 years ago I wrote about the people who were working on optogenetics, the patent debates and the role of race and prestige. I don't know the answer, but... www.statnews.com/2016/09/01/o...

Medicine Nobel goes to US-German trio for pioneering light-based control of cells - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/medicine-nobel-goes-us-german-trio-pioneering-light-based-control-cells-6433586

Thrilled to celebrate #HHMIInvestigator Karl Deisseroth @stanforduniversity.bsky.social, winner of the '26 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in developing optogenetics, allowing scientists to directly test how specific neural circuits contribute to behavior & disease bit.ly/4huCFVb

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries leading to optogenetics. This collection celebrates their achievements. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Peter Hegemann, one of the 2026 medicine laureates, cracked the biochemistry of how light can be used to regulate the activity of neurons. This research, using what is now called #optogenetics, has paved the way for others to create tools to track and map out neural networks. #NobelPrize #chemsky 🧪

Nobel medicine prize goes to three scientists for research into brain activity

Zhuo-Hua Pan wuz robbed. I saw his *functional* optogenetics work in retina *years* before others in the field.