# WATCH: Karl Deisseroth tells his family he won the Nobel Prize in medicine

https://mins.news/en/video/88579

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-06 19:34 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosRufSB45E

> Stanford University released footage of Karl Deisseroth telling his two daughters and one son that he had won the Nobel Prize in medicine. The 54-year-old shared this year’s award with two researchers in Germany for work on optogenetics, which uses light and genes to switch neurons on and off in living brains.

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