Marta Navarrete

Position

Researcher at the Cajal Center for Neuroscience – CSIC and principal investigator at the Laboratory of Dynamics and Plasticity of the Glia-Neuron Circuit

Cajal International Neuroscience Center (CINC), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Topics

neuroscience

Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology Awarded to Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel for Their Discoveries on Light-Activated Ion Channels and Optogenetics

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Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology Awarded to Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel for Their Discoveries on Light-Activated Ion Channels and Optogenetics

SMC Spain

05/10/2026 - 12:05 CEST

The Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their discoveries regarding light-activated ion channels and optogenetics. This method, which makes it possible to activate or deactivate individual neurons in a living brain, “is currently used in laboratories around the world to unravel the mysteries of the brain,” the institute announced.