NBC Los Angeles

Stanford professor among trio awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for research into brain activity

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for pioneering optogenetics, which “is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.”

the Guardian

Nobel prize in medicine 2026 awarded for research into mysteries of brain

Three scientists to share 12m Swedish kronor prize for their work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’

NPR

Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.