Sleep researchers honored with Lasker Award for narcolepsy breakthrough
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Two sleep and narcolepsy researchers — Masashi Yanagisawa and Emmanuel Mignot — win the Lasker Award for pioneering animal studies that uncovered orexins as drivers of wakefulness and the inherited narcolepsy mechanism, laying groundwork for an orexin-targeting therapy.
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