The 2023 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Life Sciences
• Achievement:
  The development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit function
• Lecture：
  Optogenetics: Causes, Connections, Mechanisms

Education

1991	M.D., Universitat Innsbruck, Austria

Professional History

1991	Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (~1998)
1999	Assistant Professor, Cornell University (~2004)
2004	Associate Professor Yale University (~2007)
2007	Waynflete Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford (~current)
2011	Director, University of Oxford (~current)

Key Publications

• BV Zemelman, GA Lee, M Ng, G Miesenböck., (2002), “Selective photostimulation of genetically chARGed neurons”, Neuron, 33, 15-22. (citation 557).
• SQ Lima, G Miesenböck., (2005), “Remote control of behavior through genetically targeted photostimulation of neurons”, Cell 121,141-152. (citation 616)
• JD Clyne, G Miesenböck., (2008), “Sex-specific control and tuning of the pattern generator for courtship song in Drosophila”, Cell, 133, 354-363. (citation 274)
• E Vrontou, L Sjulson, H Li, J Hirsh, G Miesenböck., (2009), “Writing memories with light-addressable reinforcement circuitry”, Cell, 139, 405-415. (citation 451)

Award and Honor

2012	InBev-Baillet Latour Prize (single)
2013	Brain Prize (with Ernst Bamberg, Ed Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel)
2013	Gabbay Award (with Karl Deisseroth, and Ed Boyden)
2015	Heinrich Wieland Prize (single)
2015	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (with Ed Boyden, Karl Deisseroth)
2016	Wilhelm Exner Medal (single)
2016	Massry Prize (with Peter Hegemann and Karl Deisseroth)
2017	Trinity College Dublin Award (single)
2019	Rumford Prize (with Ernst Bamberg, Ed Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel)
2019	Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (with Ed Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, and Peter Hegemann)
2020	Shaw Prize in Life Sciences (with Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel)