Yoshihiro Urade
Tsukuba University, Japan
Biography
Yoshihiro Urade has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Kyoto University in 1983 and postdoctoral studies from ERATO project of Japan Science and Technology Agency. He was the visiting professor of Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in 1988, the senior scientist of International Laboratories of CIBA-GEIGY Japan in 1990, and the vise-head of Department of Molecular Behavioral Biology of Osaka Bioscience Institute in 1993, and the head of this department in 1998 to 2014. In 2014, he became a principal investigator of a newly established institute in Tsukuba University. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Prostaglandins, Leukotriens and Essential Fatty Acids and as the secretary general of Asian Society of Sleep Medicine (ASSM).
Abstract
Abstract : Pathophysiological roles of the prostaglandin D2 system in the central and peripheral nervous system