Stanford Engineering

Karl Deisseroth knew that understanding the brain would take more than understanding its chemistry. He joined Stanford Bioengineering to work alongside people who could build the tools to advance brain science. In this interview he says, “I don’t think I could have done what we did anywhere else, really.”

Deisseroth, a Stanford professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was one of three scientists awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for  discovering and developing optogenetics. @bioe_stanford is a department jointly run by the School of Engineering and @stanford.med.