# Nobel Medicine Prize awarded to three scientists for optogenetics work

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- TASS, 2026-10-05 10:05 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://tass.com/science/2197619

> The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced.

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