Two teams of scientists, one in the US and the other in Japan, have won a joint prize for their research unravelling the main causes of the chronic sleep disorder narcolepsy.
The researchers, Emmanuel Mignot from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Masashi Yanagisawa from the University of Tsukuba, won the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for Life Science 2023 for finding that narcolepsy is a neurodegenerative disease.
