In 2016, Takeshi Tsuji of RIKEN Lab Japan announced that he was working on a cure for male pattern balding. He quicky within became a legend and saviour-like figure in the online hair loss community.

https://www.bdr.riken.jp/en/research/labs/tsuji-t/index.html

I remember checking daily for news from him on hairlosscure2020. I thought I had male pattern balding, but it turned out I had something called telogen effluvium.