He received his ScB with Honors in Neuroscience from Brown University, and his M.D./Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. As a postdoc in Amita Sehgal’s lab at Penn, be began using Drosophila to study sleep. Dr. Kayser’s current research focuses on the regulation and function of sleep in the developing brain. He is also the recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, and Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award.