Background
Yanagisawa, Masashi was born in 1960 in Tokyo.
Yanagisawa, Masashi was born in 1960 in Tokyo.
Doctor of Medicine summa cum laude, University Tsukuba, Japan, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences, University Tsukuba, 1988.
Postdoct. fellow department pharmacology Institute Basic Medical Sciences University Tsukuba, Japan, 1988-1989, assistant professor pharmacology department pharmacology Institute Basic Medical, 1989-1991. Assistant professor pharmacology department pharmacology Kyoto University, Japan, 1991. Associate professor department molecular genetics University Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, 1991-1996, professor department molecular genetics, since 1996, associate investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1991-1996, investigator Howard Hughes Medical Center, since 1996, George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in biomedical Sciences, since 1998.
Invited lecturer The Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecturer Council for High Blood Pressure Research American Heart Association, 1995. State-of-the-Art lecturer HHMI-National Institutes of Health Research Scholar Program 1995. Keynote lecturer Keystone Symposium on the Molecular Biology of the Cardiovasc.
Systems, 1996; invited speaker opening symposium Harvard Institute Human Genetics, 1997, Nature Conference, 1996, others.
Member American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Amgen award 1995), National Academy of Sciences.