Hajime Tei
Hajime Tei | |
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| Born | March 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Known for | Chronobiology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurophysiology, general neuroscience, circadian rhythms, suprachiasmatic nucleus, clock gene |
| Institutions | Kanazawa University
Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences University of Tokyo |
Hajime Tei (程 肇, テイ ハジメ born March 1959) is a Japanese neuroscientist specializing in the study of chronobiology. He currently serves as a professor at the Kanazawa University Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology. He is most notable for his contributions to the discovery of the mammalian period genes, which he discovered alongside Yoshiyuki Sakaki and Hitoshi Okamura.