Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

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Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT has been named a recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award — Canada’s most prestigious scientific prize — for his role in the discovery of light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technology to control brain activity with light. Boyden’s work has given neuroscientists […] The post Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award appeared first on MIT McGovern Institute .