Deisseroth Lab, Stanford University (original) (raw)
Previous Academic and Administrative Appointments
2004-2005
Principal Investigator and Clinical Educator, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
2005-2008
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, Stanford
2009-2012
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, Stanford
2009-2013
HHMI Early Career Investigator
2012-pres
Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, Stanford University
2012-pres
D.H. Chen Professorship and Chair, Stanford University
2013-2019
Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institutet
2014-pres
Investigator, HHMI
Service
National and International
2005-2007
Scientific advisor, nonprofit: Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
2007-2009
Member, NIH Molecular Neurogenetics chartered study section (MNG)
2007-
Ad hoc member, NIH study sections
2007-
Scientific advisor, nonprofit: Kinetics Foundation for Parkinson's Research
2008-
Woods Hole and Cold Spring Harbor couses; yearly optogenetics teaching
2008-
Stanford, optogenetics course for visiting students
2009-
NARSAD Council (Brain and Behavior Research Foundation)
2010-
Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
2011-
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
2019-
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
University
2010-
Chair of Undergraduate Education in Bioengineering
2004-
Inpatient and outpatient care: attending physician, inpatient and outpatient service, interventional psychiatry
Honors and Awards
1990-1992
John Harvard Scholarship: Academic Achievement of the Highest Distinction, Harvard
1992
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard
1992
Summa cum laude, Harvard
1992
Highest Honors, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard
1997
Stanford Yanofsky Graduate Research Award
2002
NIMH Outstanding Resident Award
2004
American Psychiatric Association Resident Research Award
2004
Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science Award
2005
Klingenstein Fellowship Award and Robert H. Ebert Clinical Scholar Award
2005
Whitehall Foundation Award
2005
NARSAD Young Investigator Award
2005
American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education Young Faculty Award
2005
McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award
2005
Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering
2005
NIH Director's Pioneer Award
2006
Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE)
2007
McKnight Foundation Scholar Award
2007
Top 10 Technologies Award, MIT Technology Review
2008
Brilliant 10 Award, Popular Science
2008
World Economic Forum Lecturer, Davos Switzerland
2008
William M. Keck Foundation Medical Research Award
2008
Lawrence C. Katz Prize, Duke University, for optogenetics
2008
Schuetze Prize, Columbia University, for optogenetics
2009
Society for Neuroscience YIA Award, for optogenetics
2009
Society for Neuroscience Special Lecture: "Optogenetics: Development and Application"
2010
Gill YIA Award, Indiana University, for optogenetics
2010
Koetser Prize laureate, Zurich Switzerland, for optogenetics
2010
Nakasone Prize laureate, International Human Frontier Science Program/HFSP, for optogenetics
2010
National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Election
2011
Alden Spencer Prize, Columbia, for optogenetics
2012
Perl/UNC Prize, for optogenetics
2012
Record Prize, Baylor, for optogenetics
2012
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
2012
Zuelch Prize, Max-Planck Society, for optogenetics
2013
Richard Lounsbery Prize from the National Academy of Sciences, for optogenetics
2013
BRAIN Prize, Lundbeck Research Foundation, for optogenetics
2013
Pasarow Foundation Award, for neuropsychiatry
2013
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
2013
Premio Citta' di Firenze for Molecular Sciences, for optogenetics and CLARITY
2013
Gabbay Award, Brandeis University, for optogenetics
2013
Goldman-Rakic Award, Yale/NARSAD, for optogenetics and CLARITY
2014
Dickson Prize in Science, for optogenetics
2014
Keio Medical Science Prize, for optogenetics
2014
National Academy of Sciences, Germany (Leopoldina)
2014
Wilson Prize (Harvard Chemistry)
2014
Scientist of the Year (R+D Magazine)
2015
Albany Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, for optogenetics
2015
Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, for optogenetics and CLARITY
2015
Breakthrough Prize in Life Science, for optogenetics
2015
Dickson Prize in Medicine, for optogenetics
2015
Adolph Meyer Award, American Psychiatric Association
2016
Massry Prize, for optogenetics
2016
BBVA Award, for optogenetics
2016
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2016
McGovern Award in Science
2017
Harvey Prize in Human Health, Technion/Israel, for optogenetics
2017
Redelsheimer Award, for optogenetics
2017
Else Kröner Fresenius Prize: "for his discoveries of optogenetics and of hydrogel-tissue chemistry, and for developing circuit-level insight into depression"
2017
NOMIS Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award
2018
Eisenberg Prize, University of Michigan, for "the field of optogenetics"
2018
Rumford Prize, AAAS
2018
NAI (National Academy of Inventors)
2018
Kyoto Prize, "for the discovery of optogenetics and the development of causal systems neuroscience"
2018
Leibinger Prize, for the "development and implementation of optogenetics"
2019
National Academy of Engineering
2019
Alpert Award
2020
Heineken Prize from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, "for developing optogenetics - a method to influence the activity of nerve cells with light - as well as for developing hydrogel-tissue chemistry, which enables researchers to make biological tissue accessible to light and molecular probes"
2021
Lasker Basic Medical Research Award to Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Oesterhelt for "the discovery of light-sensitive microbial proteins that can activate or deactivate individual brain cells-leading to the development of optogenetics and revolutionizing neuroscience"
2022
Luisa Gross Horwitz Prize, for optogenetics
2023
Japan Prize, in Life Sciences, for optogenetics