Karl Deisseroth, HHMI Investigator at Stanford, WIns Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University is among five scientists awarded the Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences. The prizes honor transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.
Deisseroth was honored for the development and implementation of optogenetics — the programming of neurons to express light-activated ion channels and pumps, so that their electrical activity can be controlled by light.
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