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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced Monday that professors Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine, with two of the three laureates having received the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Harvey Prize.
Prof. Deisseroth of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, USA, and Prof. Hegemann of Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, were awarded the Harvey Prize in 2016 for the same investigation that led to them the Nobel laureates.
The Nobel Assembly explained that it awarded the prize “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”