Gero Miesenboeck, Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Magdalen Fellow, has been awarded the Brain Prize 2013 for his pioneering role in developing ‘optogenetics’, a revolutionary technique which uses light to control sets of nerve cells in order to reveal much about the brain.
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