The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2015 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

 

Professor Dr Gero Miesenböck

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

 

for his breakthrough concept of optogenetics and its proof of principle.

 

Speakers at the award symposium were:

  • Professor Dr Arthur Konnerth
    TUM, Munich, Germany
    "Neuronal circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease"

  • Professor Dr Christian Lüscher
    University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    "A circuit model of addiction"

  • Professor Dr Gero Miesenböck
    University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    "Lighting up the brain"

  • Professor Dr Botond Roska
    FMI, Basel, Switzerland
    "Restoring vision using optogenetics"

  • Professor Dr Bert Sakmann
    TUM, Munich, Germany
    Laudation

 

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.

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