【斯坦福大学教授因发现利用光研究大脑的新方法而荣获诺贝尔奖】
美国教授卡尔·戴瑟罗特（Karl Deisseroth）与德国教授彼得·黑格曼（Peter Hegemann）和格奥尔格·纳格尔（Georg Nagel）于周一荣获2026年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，以表彰他们开发了光遗传学技术。光遗传学是一种利用光来控制大脑中单个神经细胞的技术。

瑞典卡罗林斯卡学院诺贝尔奖评选委员会表示，54岁的戴瑟罗特、71岁的黑格曼和73岁的纳格尔因其“在光控离子通道和光遗传学方面的发现”而获此殊荣。

卡罗林斯卡学院诺贝尔奖评选委员会秘书长托马斯·珀尔曼（Thomas Perlmann）表示：“这种方法可以开启或关闭活体大脑中单个神经细胞的活动。”

遗传学教授、诺贝尔生理学或医学奖委员会成员安娜·韦德尔（Anna Wedell）表示，神经科学的新时代已经开启，但这仅仅是个开始。 “我们第一次能够真正开始了解大脑如何处理信息，以及大脑中不同的神经元是如何相互作用的，”她说道。

Stanford professor wins Nobel Prize for discovery of new way to study brain using light

American Prof. Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.

The Nobel ​Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institutet said Deisseroth, 54; Hegemann, 71; and Nagel, 73, had been selected for their "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics."

"This method makes it possible to switch on, or off, ‌the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain," said Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

Anna Wedell, a professor in genetics and a member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, said a new era in neuroscience had opened but it was only the beginning.

"For the first time we can actually start to understand how the brain processes information and how different neurons interact across the brain," she said.

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