[1] He is a professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University.
[7] Since 2016, he has been director of Good Quality Sleep Research Organization.
[11] In 1999, he discovered the causative gene in canine familial narcolepsy.
[8] In 2000, he identified the main developmental mechanism of human narcolepsy as the center of the group.
[8] In 2005, Nishino became director of the Stanford Institute for Sleep and Biological Rhythms.