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Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., Ph.D.

Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine

Affiliations
  • Stanford University

Emmanuel Mignot is the Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine at Stanford University. He discovered that human narcolepsy is caused by an autoimmune loss of approximately 20,000 hypothalamic neurons secreting the wake-promoting peptide hypocretin (also known as orexin). He also identified HLA-DQB1*06:02 and T-cell receptor genes as major susceptibility genes, which act together to promote a selective autoimmune process triggered by influenza A. Mignot has received numerous awards and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.

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SFARI Workshop Explores Sleep Challenges in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Events

Phenotyping sleep

Lecture

September 16, 2020

4:45–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Emmanuel Mignot

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SFARI is the Simons Foundation’s autism research program, advancing the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders through funding, collaboration, and open science.

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