08/07
Check out "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).
03/07
Optogenetics is selected as one of the top 10 emerging technologies (TR10) by MIT's Technology Review. "Karl Deisseroth's genetically engineered "light switch," which lets scientists turn selected parts of the brain on and off, may help improve treatments for depression and other disorders." [ Details ]
02/07
Raag receives the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA).
12/06
Check out the optogenetics News Focus in the December 2006 issue
of Science.
09/06
Liping receives the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine postdoctoral fellowship.
09/05
Karl is among a select group of 13 scientists nationwide to receive the
NIH Director's Pioneer Award. The award includes up to $500,000
in annual funding for five years.
08/05
Karl is one of four recipients who has been awarded a
Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for 2005-2007 by the McKnight Endowment
Fund for Neuroscience. The awards pay $200,000 over two years for research
projects that seek to advance the field of neuroscience by developing
new tools and techniques enabling deeper understanding of the brain.
06/05 Karl is awarded an Office of
Technology Licensing Research Incentive grants. Karl's grant, awarded with
Theo Palmer, is for "Pulsed Magnetic Neural Excitation to Drive Stem Cell
Differentiation."
05/05 Karl receives a Coulter Early Career Translational Research Award.
06/07
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08/07
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