Karl Deisseroth

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His laboratory created and developed optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry (beginning with CLARITY), and a broad range of enabling methods. He has employed his technologies to discover the neural cell types and connections that cause adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. His studies focus on neural physiology and behavior, both in natural behaviorally relevant neural circuit dynamics and in pathological dynamics underlying neuropsychiatric disease symptomatology and treatment. Dr. Deisseroth received an AB degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard and earned his MD and PhD from Stanford.