Nobel prize in medicine 2026 awarded for research into mysteries of brain

Three scientists to share 12m Swedish kronor prize for their work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2026 has been awarded to three scientists for their work on investigating the mysteries of the brain.

Karl Deisseroth of both Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of the Humboldt University of Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg have been awarded the prize “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”.