BREAKING NEWS: Japan Sleep Expert Masashi Yanagisawa Among Lasker Awards Winners
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Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa have - separately - made notable advances in research into this rare disease, allowing for the development of treatments and opening up new perspectives.
Often regarded as an announcer of a possible Nobel prize, this American prize celebrates the "fundamental discoveries" made by Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa in the 1990s. By chance of fate, these two researchers with opposite approaches simultaneously highlighted the cause of narcolepsy, a finding that paved the way for several treatments and revolutionized the discipline then emerging from the medicine of sleep. Captivated by this "ext…
Since the late 1980s at Stanford University, the French psychiatrist and pharmacologist has been exploring the causes of this disabling sleep disorder. He shares this prestigious American award, awarded on Wednesday 9 September, with the Japanese Masashi Yanagisawa.
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