News

03/08 Ofer received a postdoctoral fellowship from EMBO.
03/08 Kim received a postdoctoral fellowship from NARSAD.
03/08 Karl received the Larry C. Katz Memorial Prize Lecture at Duke University.
03/08 Feng received the Larry C. Katz Memorial Lecture award at the 2008 Neural Circuits Meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
06/07 The Natronomonas pharaonis halorhodopsin manuscript was one of Nature's favorite papers in 2007.
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.
07/06 Karl receives the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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.
04/05 Karl is featured on the Engineering School homepage and in an article on the site: http://soe.stanford.edu/profiles/profile_bio_deiss.html
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