Hajime Tei

Hajime Tei
BornMarch 1959 (age 66–67)
Known forChronobiology
Scientific career
FieldsNeurophysiology, general neuroscience, circadian rhythms, suprachiasmatic nucleus, clock gene
InstitutionsKanazawa 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.