# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-takahashi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:39:06.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-takahashi"
name: "Joseph Takahashi"
slug: "joseph-takahashi"
description: "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."
tagline: "American medical investigator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1951-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475450666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جوزف تاخاشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيف تاكاهاشي"
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    title: "چوزيف تاكاهاشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%91%9F%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E9%AB%98%E6%A1%A5"
    title: "约瑟夫·高桥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Takahashi"
    title: "Joseph Takahashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Takahashi"
    title: "Joseph Takahashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6287342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump