Takashi Gojobori

Who is Takashi Gojobori?

Takashi Gojobori, a Japanese molecular biologist, is Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics and Professor at Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan in NIG, Mishima, Japan. He has also been co-appointed as the Special Research Consultant of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, as a Visiting Professor of Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology and as a Visiting Research Director of RIKEN.

After finishing his Ph.D. at Kyushu University, Japan, he was Research Associate and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Houston for 4 years. He was also Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and Visiting Research Fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.

Prof. Gojobori is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Prof. Gojobori as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He has received the Gaetano Salvatore Gold Medal from Italy. He was awarded the Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award in 1995 and the Purple Ribbon Medal and the Medal of Honor of Japan in 2009 for a series of his researches to pioneer the early age of “Molecular Evolutionary Studies using Genome Information”.