Scientist Uchiyama Masateru: Of Mice, Music, and Heart Transplant Operations

A special magazine published by Annals of Improbable Research, which organizes the Ig Nobel Prizes, after the awards ceremony. Uchiyama appears on the cover, at right. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

A leaflet advertising Ig Nobel lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the day after the ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

Test mice observed by Uchiyama and his team. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

Uchiyama gives a presentation at the Japanese College of Angiology in October 2013, one month after the awards ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

Uchiyama gives a presentation at the Japanese College of Angiology in October 2013, one month after the awards ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)