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The 2021 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, to Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Oesterhelt, for
"the discovery of light-sensitive microbial proteins that can activate or deactivate individual
brain cells-leading to the development of optogenetics and revolutionizing neuroscience"
Lasker Foundation
Stanford Medicine press release
Forbes Magazine
Lasker Foundation Public Lecture - 6/20 Heineken Prize in Medicine from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2/19 Elected member, National Academy of Engineering
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10/18 2018 Kyoto Prize, "for the discovery of optogenetics and the development of causal systems neuroscience"
Stanford Medicine press release
Photonics press release
Kyoto Prize Lecture
Hudson and Xander welcomed onstage at the ceremony as prior Kyoto Prize laureates Tasuku Honjo and Shinya Yamanaka look on over Karl's left shoulder. - 9/18 2018 Leibinger Prize, for the "development and implementation of optogenetics"
- 3/18 2018 Eisenberg Prize, University of Michigan for "the field of optogenetics"
- 2/18 2018 Gairdner Award "for the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms, and for the discovery of optogenetics - a technology that has revolutionized neuroscience"
- 7/17 2017 NOMIS Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award
- 6/17 2017 Harvey Prize Ceremony: optogenetics and gravitational waves
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5/17 Else Kröner Fresenius Prize awarded, "for his discoveries of optogenetics and of hydrogel-tissue chemistry, and for developing circuit-level insight into depression".
EMBO Fresenius Prize interview
Fresenius Prize Commentary
HHMI
Stanford
Scope
The Scientist
Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation
NIBIB
NIMH
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Fresenius Prize film - 5/17 Distinguished Redelsheimer Prize awarded
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3/17 AIMBE induction ceremony, National Academies Building, Washington DC
- 1/17 2017 Harvey Prize Awarded for optogenetics: Deisseroth and Hegemann
- 10/16 iBiology short talk: optogenetics discovery
- 10/16 PNAS Q+A with Karl Deisseroth
- 8/16 2016 Massry Prize named | The three 2016 Massry Prize Laureates | Massry Prize citations | Stanford blog | Stanford medicine | Stanford anniversary news | Stanford engineering
- 5/16 Different brain cells process positive and negative experiences
- 11/15 Bioengineering at Stanford becomes an official undergraduate major
- 11/15 2016 Breakthrough Prize awarded | Stanford Medicine | Stanford press release | Stanford Engineering | HHMI
- 05/15 Dickson Prize in Medicine awarded
- 04/15 New Prize for Optogenetics Awarded | Press release | Associated Press | Times-Union | Stanford blog
- 03/15 Next generation of scientists at AAAS
- 2/15 2015 Lurie Prize awarded, for optogenetics and CLARITY
- 11/14 News and views: ideas on depression research
- 11/14 Optogenetics applications and recent developments
- 11/14 CLARITY applications and advances
- 10/14 Keio Prize awarded | Stanford press release | Keio press release
- 6/14 2014 Marshall Nirenberg Lecture, NIH [video]
- 4/14 Social behavior circuit
- 4/14 Next-generation CLARITY
- 4/14 SwiChR and iC1C2: HHMI
- 4/14 SwiChR and iC1C2: NIMH
- 4/14 SwiChR and iC1C2: Stanford
- 4/14 New York Times profile
- 4/14 MIT Technology Review: Brain Mapping
- 1/14 Dickson Prize in Science awarded
- 12/13 New tools unveiled at Society For Neuroscience conference.
- 8/13 BRAIN initiative and neuroethics.
- 6/13 Nature Profile.
- 6/13 Science Profile.
- 4/13 Nature video and Stanford video on CLARITY.
- 4/13 NYTimes on CLARITY.
- 4/13 NIH Director Francis Collins, NIMH Director Tom Insel, NIH.
- 4/13 Associated Press, Reuters, and NBC News Science on CLARITY.
- 4/13 Simons Foundation and HHMI on CLARITY.
- 4/13 Scientific American blog, SCOPE blog, and Storify on CLARITY.
- 3/13 CNC center and the Brain proposal.
- 3/13 Pasarow Prize for neuropsychiatry research.
- 3/13 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize for the development of optogenetics.
- 1/13 KD is awarded the Lounsbery Prize from the National Academy of Sciences, for optogenetics.
- 12/12 BBR & Stanford feature depression circuitry study.
- 11/12 Depression study featured by Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and Stanford News.
- 12/11 2011 HHMI Annual Report names anxiety study one of 'ten big stories' of 2011.
- 2011 Profile of KD in Stanford Medicine
- 08/11 Rob Ring, president of translational research for Autism Speaks, writes about research from the lab.
- 12/10 2010 Method of the Year: Optogenetics. Method of the Year Primer.
- 12/10 2010 Science: insight of the decade.
- 07/10 Article on optogenetics published in Forbes.
- 04/10 Optogenetics article from Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
- 04/10 KD is awarded the international HFSP Nakasone Prize, for optogenetics (Citation)
- 01/10 Society for Neuroscience features optogenetics in Inside Science Forum, with KD and Feng Zhang.
- 01/10 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) features KD and optogenetics.
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10/09 KD is awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience (Citation)
- 10/09 KD gives SFN special lecture on optogenetics
- 10/09 Ilka is awarded the Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship
- 10/09 Tom is awarded the Walter V. and Idun Berry Fellowship
- 09/09 KQED special features KD and Optogenetics in Illuminating Depression. ( Producer's notes)
- 09/09 KD's Scientist Abstract is added to the HHMI website.
- 03/09 Mice Get Hooked on Light. MIT Technology Review.
- 12/08 Viviana receives the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.
- 12/08 Murtaza receives the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
- 12/08 Ramin receives the Stanford Dean's Fellowship Award.
- 12/08 Cell imaging: Light activated Nature Technology Feature.
- 11/08 Ilana receives the Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship.
- 10/08 Ilka receives a fellowship from the German Academic Research Exchange DAAD.
- 08/08 Inbal receives the Rothschild and Machiah Fellowships.
- 06/08 Lisa receives a Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship.
- 04/08 Ofer receives fellowships from EMBO and the Human Frontiers in Science Program.
- 03/08 Kim receives a 2008 NARSAD Young Investigator Award.
- 03/08 KD receives the Larry C. Katz Memorial Prize Lecture at Duke University.
- 03/08 Feng receives the Larry C. Katz Memorial Lecture award at the 2008 Neural Circuits Meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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06/07 The Natronomonas pharaonis halorhodopsin manuscript is one of Nature's
favorite papers in 2007.
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08/07 "The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain" in Science Times.
- 06/07 Feng receives the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA).
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03/07 Optogenetics is selected as one of the top 10 emerging technologies (TR10) by MIT's Technology Review. [ Details ]
- 02/07 Raag receives the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA).
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12/06 Optogenetics News Focus in the December 2006 issue of
Science . - 09/06 Liping receives the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine postdoctoral fellowship.
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07/06 KD receives the 2006
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
- 09/05 KD receives the NIH pioneer award.
- 08/05 KD is one of four recipients awarded a Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for 2005-2007 by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
- 07/05K.D. receives award from the H. L. Snyder Medical Foundation to help develop high-speed optical control methods
- 05/05 KD receives a Coulter Early Career Translational Research Award.
