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Stanford Scientist Wins Shared Nobel, Packs Lunches
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— Oct 5, 2026
Karl Deisseroth, 54, shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics, then paused at 6:30 a.m. after a sleepless night to make his children's school lunches.
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Derek Foss
Winning a Nobel for optogenetics yet still packing school lunches at dawn shows real priorities.
Trio Wins Nobel Medicine Prize for Optogenetics
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— Oct 5, 2026
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries behind optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control activity in individual nerve cells and study the brain.
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Rachel Meyers
Optogenetics could finally help us understand and treat brain disorders at the cellular level.