Joseph Takahashi

Joseph S. Takahashi
BornDecember 16, 1951 (1951-12-16) (age 74)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materSwarthmore College
University of Oregon
Known forDiscovering CLOCK gene
AwardsGruber Prize in Neuroscience (2019)
W. Alden Spencer Award (2001)
Ariëns Kappers Medal (1995)
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. Takahashi's research group discovered the genetic basis for the mammalian circadian clock in 1994 and identified the Clock gene in 1997. Takahashi was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.

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