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Boyden Awarded Inaugural International Prize

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LONDON, May 2, 2012 — Professor Ed Boyden received the first international A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for his pioneering research in medical engineering. The £300,000 (approximately $485,000) award will be given annually to exceptional individual researchers for their achievements and promising future research. The prize money will be used to support further investigations led by the recipient in specific areas of engineering and technology. Boyden leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT, which develops tools for...Read full article

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    Published: May 2012
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    optogenetics
    A discipline that combines optics and genetics to enable the use of light to stimulate and control cells in living tissue, typically neurons, which have been genetically modified to respond to light. Only the cells that have been modified to include light-sensitive proteins will be under control of the light. The ability to selectively target cells gives researchers precise control. Using light to control the excitation, inhibition and signaling pathways of specific cells or groups of...
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