A group of six scientists, hailing from Austria, Germany and the US, have been named as recipients of the third annual Brain prize, awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize Foundation.
The winners, Austrian Gero Miesenböck, Germans Ernst Bamberg, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, and Americans Ed Boyden and Karl Deisseroth, are being recognised for their work on optogenetics, a technique where light is used to control the activity of neurons.
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