About the Authors

Mahesh K. Kaushik

kaushik.m.k.kb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (MKK); urade.yoshihiro.ft@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (YU)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Sleep, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Molecular Genetics, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Sunil C. Kaul

Affiliation Drug Discovery and Assets Innovation Lab, DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Renu Wadhwa

Affiliation Drug Discovery and Assets Innovation Lab, DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Masashi Yanagisawa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshihiro Urade

kaushik.m.k.kb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (MKK); urade.yoshihiro.ft@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (YU)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Sleep, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MKK SCK RW MY YU. Data curation: MKK SCK. Formal analysis: MKK SCK. Funding acquisition: YU. Investigation: MKK. Methodology: MKK RW YU. Project administration: MKK. Resources: SCK RW YU. Supervision: YU. Validation: RW YU. Visualization: MKK. Writing – original draft: MKK.