# Nobel Medicine Prize goes to scientists who pioneered optogenetics

https://mins.news/en/item/86274

- CBC News, 2026-10-05 10:05 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nobel-prize-sweden-medicine-physiology-9.7366536?cmp=rss

> Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the prize-giving body said Monday.

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