Joseph Takahashi

Joseph S. Takahashi
BornDecember 16, 1951 (1951-12-16) (age 72)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSwarthmore College
University of Oregon
Known forDiscovering CLOCK gene
AwardsW. Alden Spencer Award (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
Neurobiology
InstitutionsUT Southwestern
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Joseph S. Takahashi is a Japanese American neurobiologist and geneticist. Takahashi is a professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as well as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[1][2] Takahashi's research group discovered the genetic basis for the mammalian circadian clock in 1994 and identified the Clock gene in 1997.[3][4][5] Takahashi was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.[6]

  1. ^ "Neurobiology faculty - Joseph Takahashi". UT southwest. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
  2. ^ "HHMI Scientist Biography - Joseph Takahashi". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  3. ^ "Gene Discovered in Mice that Regulates Biological Clock". Chicago Tribune. April 29, 1994.
  4. ^ "Found in Mouse: The Gene of a Night Owl". The New York Times. April 29, 1994.
  5. ^ Wade, Nicholas (May 16, 1997). "A Mouse Helps Explain What Makes Us Tick". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference PNAS bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).