[PL] Plenary Lecture

[PL-1] Toward the Mysteries of Sleep

^○Masashi Yanagisawa (WPI-IIIS, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Masashi Yanagisawa obtained MD (1985) and PhD (1988) degrees from University of Tsukuba with his discovery of endothelin. He started his own lab in 1991 as an HHMI Investigator at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he discovered orexin and stayed for 24 years. He started his current lab back in Tsukuba in 2010 funded by the FIRST program from MEXT, and established WPI-IIIS in 2012. He is a member of US National Academy (2003); his awards include the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2016), Asahi Prize, Keio Medical Science Prize (2018), and the Person of Cultural Merit (2019).