Gero Miesenböck

Awards

1. 2013

   The Brain Prize

   Biology

   For their invention and refinement of optogenetics.

2. 2020

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For the development of optogenetics, a technology that has revolutionized neuroscience.

3. 2023

   Japan Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for the development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function.