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Masashi Yanagisawa is a neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 133 at University of Tsukuba (Member). Has been published in Nature, Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Masashi Yanagisawa is a Japanese-American molecular biologist and physician, famous for his discovery of the hormone endothelin and the neuropeptide orexin, the absence of which is the cause of narcolepsy. He is currently the Director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba, and an adjunct professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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