Heinrich Wieland Prize

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.