# Karl Deisseroth

- **Website:** <https://deisseroth.com>
- **Primary alias:** `deisseroth.com`

## Description

Karl Deisseroth’s professional website presents the work and career of the Stanford neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and author whose research helped establish optogenetics. This technique uses light-sensitive proteins to control and study the activity of neurons, enabling researchers to investigate how brain circuits contribute to behavior, perception, cognition, and emotion. The site traces Deisseroth’s discoveries from introducing microbial light-sensitive proteins into mammalian neurons in 2004 to developing precise optical control and mapping the structure and function of channelrhodopsins. It also describes efforts to translate brain-circuit research into medical applications, including clinical trials exploring treatment strategies for schizophrenia, autism, and cognitive disorders. Visitors can explore a career timeline, selected publications organized by topic, awards, and press coverage, with links to further academic and research resources. The site also features Deisseroth’s book Projections, which examines human emotion and mental illness. His honors include the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Japan Prize, and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

## Industries

- 🧪 Science and Education
- 🧪 Biology _(under Science and Education)_
- ⛑ Health

## Links

- [twitter](https://twitter.com/karldeisseroth)

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