Takatoshi Mochizuki

Affiliation：Administrative Director, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba

Research Title

Neuroscience

01 Major achievements

Tamogami S, Ikeda S, Amano H, Suzuki R, Yamamoto R, Mise R, Kitade S, Mochizuki T, Yoshikawa T, Morioka E, Ikeda M. Bright light shapes diurnal sleep-wake rhythms with associated cFos activity in the anterior paraventricular thalamus in the Nile grass rat. The Journal of Neuroscience 2026: e0253262026.

Mochizuki T. Histamine as an Alert Signal in the Brain. In: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences: The Functional Roles of Histamine Receptors. Yanai K, Passani MB (eds), Springer Berlin, 2022; 59: 413-25.

De Luca R, Nardone S, Grace KP, Venner A, Cristofolini M, Bandaru SS, Sohn LT, Kong D, Mochizuki T, Viberti B, Zhu L, Zito A, Scammell TE, Saper CB, Lowell BB, Fuller PM, Arrigoni E. Orexin neurons inhibit sleep to promote arousal. Nature Communications 2022; 13: 4163.

Mahoney CE, Mochizuki T, Scammell TE. Dual orexin receptor antagonists increase sleep and cataplexy in wild type mice. Sleep 2020; 43: zsz302.

02 Education/Academic background

Education/Academic background

1994 Ph.D. (Medicine), Osaka University
1994 - 1998 Research Assistant, Faculty of Medicine, Ehime University
1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research
1998 - 2001 Research Associate, Department of Molecular Behavioral Biology, Osaka Bioscience Institute
2001 - 2003 Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2003 - 2006 Lecturer, Harvard University / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2006- 2015 Assistant Professor, Harvard University / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2015 - 2019 Senior URA, Academic Research and Industrial Collaboration Management Office, Kyushu University
2019 - 2022 Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Toyama
2022 - 2023 Professor,Organization for International Education and Exchange, University of Toyama
2023 - Present Administrative Director, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba
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Core Group

University of Tsukuba Collaborative Research Group

Administrative Department

Administrative Department