Karl Deisseroth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Karl Deisseroth

optogeneticist

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1971

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: psychiatrist, university teacher, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born 18 November 1971) is the D.
H.
Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
He earned his AB in biochemical sciences from Harvard University and his MD/PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University in 1998, and completed medical internship and psychiatry residency at Stanford Medical School.
He is known for creating and developing the technologies of CLARITY and optogenetics, and for applying integrated optical and genetic strategies to study normal neural circuit function as well as dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease.
He has led his laboratory at Stanford University since 2004, serves as an attending physician at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and has been affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) since 2009.
Since 2014 he is a foreign Adjunct Professor at Sweden's prestigious Karolinska medical institute.