The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to

KARL DEISSEROTH, PETER HEGEMANN, and GEORG NAGEL

“for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”

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