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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe most revealing detail about Karl Deisseroth\u2019s Nobel morning may not be the phone call from Stockholm. It is what happened after it.Hours after learning that he had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Stanford neuroscientist still had a very ordinary job waiting for him: making sandwiches for his children before school. His morning involved both one of science\u2019s biggest honours and six packed lunches.<\/p>\n 5 Oct 2026 | 12:06<\/p>\n And then there was the description from his 16-year-old son Hudson, as per Stanford Report.\u201cThe word I\u2019d use to describe my dad is relentless,\u201d Hudson said. He described his father as one of the hardest-working people he knows, saying Deisseroth gives his all during \u201cevery waking hour\u201d, and, pointedly, that he seems to have more waking hours than most people.That small family observation offers a surprisingly personal window into the scientist behind one of the biggest neuroscience breakthroughs of recent decades.<\/p>\n Deisseroth is, by his own description, a night owl.On the night before the Nobel announcement, he had been working late, reviewing papers and emailing students. He had finally gone to bed when the call came from Stockholm.The first call, at 12:27 a.m. Pacific time, was missed. Seconds later, his wife, Dr Michelle Monje-Deisseroth, also a Stanford scientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist, answered her phone. The caller asked to speak to Karl.Deisseroth was stunned. He later said he temporarily struggled to form words after hearing the news. But the extraordinary moment quickly collided with family routine. His children would soon be waking up for school, and their father still had sandwiches to make.<\/p>\n Deisseroth and Michelle Monje-Deisseroth have five children.Their son Alexander, 18, is a freshman at Stanford University. When he woke up on Nobel morning, he saw a message from his mother saying there was news. He called home, spoke to his father and immediately understood what had happened.Alexander was only a five-minute bike ride away, so he came over.\u201cWe all knew he deserved this,\u201d he said, adding that the family was \u201cinsanely proud\u201d of him.Then there is Hudson, 16, whose description of his father has perhaps become the most memorable family quote from the Nobel announcement.The family\u2019s morning also included Deisseroth preparing six sandwiches for the three children still living at home. Each had specific preferences: Hudson\u2019s included ranch dressing, cheddar, salami and turkey; Sophie had a similar combination; and Emma\u2019s was made with almond butter, honey and cinnamon on raisin bread.<\/p>\n Michelle\u2019s reaction is revealing too. While Deisseroth said he was surprised and overwhelmed by the Nobel call, Stanford reported that his wife was considerably less surprised.She has watched the work ethic up close.Michelle is herself a scientist and Stanford physician, and the couple’s professional lives have long revolved around medicine, neuroscience and research. Their home is also in Stanford faculty housing, close enough to the university that an extraordinary scientific career and everyday family life occupy the same small physical world.That makes Hudson\u2019s \u201crelentless\u201d description more than a throwaway line. It is the view of a teenager who has grown up watching his father divide his time between research, patients, students and five children.<\/p>\n Deisseroth\u2019s reputation for working intensely did not begin with the Nobel.Stanford has previously described how, during his psychiatry training, he spent long hours working in psychiatric wards while also pursuing neuroscience research on nights and weekends.A former mentor, Stanford neuroscientist Robert Malenka, once described him as someone who worked extraordinarily hard and argued that exceptional achievement requires more than intelligence alone.That combination of medicine, engineering and neuroscience eventually led Deisseroth toward optogenetics.The technique uses light-sensitive proteins to control specific nerve cells. By introducing these proteins into selected neurons, researchers can use pulses of light to switch neural activity on or off with remarkable precision. The approach has transformed the study of brain circuits and helped scientists investigate how particular groups of neurons influence behaviour, emotion and disease.That is the work for which Deisseroth, together with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most telling part came when Deisseroth was asked how he planned to celebrate.His answer was short: \u201cGet back to work.\u201dThere was still more to discover, he said, and more people to help.For his family, that answer probably sounded familiar.Because behind the Nobel ceremony, the global headlines and the years of groundbreaking research is a father who works late, a mother who answers the Nobel call when he misses it, a Stanford freshman son who can cycle over in five minutes, younger children waiting for their sandwiches and a teenager who thinks the simplest word for his father is also the most accurate one: Relentless.<\/div>\n Karl Deisseroth (Image: https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/) The most revealing detail about Karl Deisseroth\u2019s Nobel morning may not be the phone call from Stockholm. It is what happened after it.Hours after learning that he had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Stanford neuroscientist still had a very ordinary job waiting for him: making sandwiches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/karl-deisseroth.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Karl Deisseroth (Image: https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/) The most revealing detail about Karl Deisseroth\u2019s Nobel morning may not be the phone call from Stockholm. 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A Nobel call in the middle of the night<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Meet the family behind the scientist<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
His wife was less surprised than he was<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The \u201crelentless\u201d part has a history<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cGet back to work\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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