Nobel Prize in medicine
The 2026 award goes to three experts in optogenetics, a technique that helps show how nerve cells shape memories and feelings in the brain
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to three scientists for their work ‘concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’
The 2026 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for “their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
