Nobel for medicine awarded to 3 scientists for work that helps map the brain
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The Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three scientists—American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel—for discoveries that have advanced understanding of brain function. Their work on optogenetics, a method using light to control nerve signals, has proven instrumental in Alzheimer's research and efforts to restore vision.
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Nobel for medicine awarded to 3 scientists for work that helps map the brain
A method that controls nerve signals with light, developed by an American and two Germans, has provided greater understanding of Alzheimer’s and is used in efforts to restore sight.
October 5, 2026 at 9:54 a.m. EDTToday at 9:54 a.m. EDT
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*American Karl Deisseroth, left, and Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel of Germany are announced as the winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)*
By Aoife Walsh
An American neuroscientist and his two German colleagues have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discoveries that have revealed more about how the brain functions.
The laureates are Karl Deisseroth, 54, a professor at Stanford University; Peter Hegemann, 71, from Humboldt University; and Georg Nagel, 73, at the University of Würzburg.
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Nobel for medicine awarded to 3 scientists for work that helps map the brain
A method that controls nerve signals with light, developed by an American and two Germans, has provided greater understanding of Alzheimer’s and is used in efforts to restore sight.
October 5, 2026 at 9:54 a.m. EDTToday at 9:54 a.m. EDT
2 min
*American Karl Deisseroth, left, and Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel of Germany are announced as the winners of the Nobel Prize for medicine. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)*
By Aoife Walsh
An American neuroscientist and his two German colleagues have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discoveries that have revealed more about how the brain functions.
The laureates are Karl Deisseroth, 54, a professor at Stanford University; Peter Hegemann, 71, from Humboldt University; and Georg Nagel, 73, at the University of Würzburg.
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* Lena H. Sun , Dan Diamond and Mary Ilyushina U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines 2 hours ago
* Dan Lamothe , Rachel Chason and Suzan Haidamous Pentagon officials’ heated debates foreshadowed problems in Iran Earlier today
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