Dr. Karl Deisseroth, left, and Dr. Xiaoling Sunney Xie receive the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Biomedicine and Biomedical Research during an awards ceremony Friday, May 15, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. Karl Deisseroth, a professor at Stanford University, has been recognized for his work developing methods that allow scientists to understand how the brain?'s circuitry works, and how specific neurons play a role in conditions like Parkinson?'s disease, addiction and depression, as well as normal processes like memory and learning. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie of Harvard University was selected for work that allows scientists to pinpoint genomic changes in a single cell. His work has major implications in such fields as cancer research and in-vitro fertilization. (Will Waldron/Times Union)
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