Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist and physician, born in Boston in 1971, who is the D. H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He studied at Harvard and took his doctorate in neuroscience and his medical degree at Stanford. He is known for developing optogenetics, which uses light to control chosen neurons, and for hydrogel tissue chemistry methods such as CLARITY and STARmap, applied to neural circuits in neurological and psychiatric illness. In 2026 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann.
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Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971)
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to study normal neural circuit function and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric illnesses
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He is the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering
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He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2026 for his work in optogenetics
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is an American scientist and physician
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to study normal neural circuit function and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric illnesses
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a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University
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to study normal neural circuit function and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric illnesses
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"awardYear": "2026"
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