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The Fascinating Road to a New Narcolepsy Treatment

JAMA Medical News··9 September 2026·39 min

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The winners of the 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, and Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD, discuss how they identified the neuropeptide orexin and deduced its role in narcolepsy. Related Content: How the Albert Lasker Winners Identified Orexin and Elucidated the Peptide's Role in Narcolepsy