Joseph Takahashi

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. Provided by Wikipedia