The professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences is a pioneering developer of optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control the behavior of cells.
Light-activated proteins can be activated or inhibited with pulses of laser light. But making it all work was a challenge.
A leader in the biomedical revolution, Stanford Medicine has a long tradition of leadership in pioneering research, creative teaching protocols and effective clinical therapies.
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How a silo-busting program to probe neuropsychiatric disease was hatched over lunch
How his groundbreaking research is reshaping our understanding of the brain and what makes us human.
