Tages Anzeiger: “The cerebral man”
Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger published an article about NOMIS Distinguished Scientist awardee Karl Deisseroth. Titled “The cerebral man” (translated from the original German “Der Kopfmensch”), the article details Deisseroth’s significant contributions to the study of the human brain. Deisseroth developed optogenetics, a technique that uses light to manipulate cells in the brain, and CLARITY, a technique that enables researchers to see the protein and nucleic acid structures inside the intact brain.
NOMIS researchers
About Karl Deisseroth Karl Deisseroth is a 2017 NOMIS Awardee and has been the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (Stanford, US) since 2012. He led the project Discovering the Causal Principles Underlying Brain-Wide Dynamics. Born in Boston, US, Deisseroth studied biochemical science at Harvard University (Boston) […]
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford Medicine
