Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS)
University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan

Education and Professional Appointments:
1985 M.D. (summa cum laude), 1985, University of Tsukuba
1988 Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, 1988, University of Tsukuba
1988 – 1989 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tsukuba
1989 – 1991 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Tsukuba
1991 – 1991 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1991 – 1996 Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics; Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UTSW)
1996 – 2014 Professor of Molecular Genetics, UTSW; Investigator, HHMI
1998 – 2014 The Patrick E. Haggerty Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Science, UTSW
2001 – 2007 Director, Yanagisawa Orphan Receptor Project (JST/ERATO)
2010 – 2014 Professor and Director, FIRST program, University of Tsukuba
2012 – Present Director, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba
2014 – Present Adjunct Professor of Molecular Genetics, UTSW
Honors/Awards:
1990 Tsukuba Award, The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki
1997 Medical Research Award, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation
1998 The Donald Seldin Award, International Society of Nephrology
1998 The J. J. Abel Award, American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
1998 The Novartis Award, American Heart Association
1998 The Kilby Award, The Kilby Awards Foundation
1999 The Amgen Award, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2000 The Tsukahara Memorial Award, The Brain Science Foundation
2000 Gold Medal Award, Tokyo Techno-Forum
2001 The Jacobæus Award, The Nordisk Insulin Foundation
2001 Special Recognition Award, The Sleep Research Society
2003 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences
2003 Bristol-Myers Squibb Achievement Award in Cardiovascular Research
2006 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, Sleep Research Society
2012 The Ulf von Euler Lecture, Karolinska Institutet
2013 Jokichi Takamine Memorial Award, The Society of Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism
2015 Walter B. Canon Award, The American Physiological Society
2016 Medal with Purple Ribbon, Government of Japan
2016 Matsuo Award, The Hormone Station of Japan
2017 Erwin Von Bälz Prieis, Boehringer Ingelheim
2018 The Asashi Prize, Asahi Shimbun Foundation
2018 The Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University Medical Science Fund
2019 Takamine Memorial Daiichi Sankyo Prize, Daiichi Sankyo Foundation of Life Science
2019 Person of Cultural Merit, Government of Japan