Takashi Gojobori

Honestly, the trajectory here is quietly impressive — a kid from Fukuoka City goes through Kyushu University and ends up as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is the kind of recognition that doesn't get handed out lightly. Takashi Gojobori built his reputation in molecular evolution and bioinformatics, the sort of deep, painstaking work where you're basically asking the genome to tell you the history of life itself. The fact that a researcher rooted in Japan earned that level of standing in American scientific institutions says a lot about how seriously his peers took his contributions. Quietly world-class is still world-class.

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Takashi Gojobori is a Japanese biologist and geneticist born on October 24, 1951, in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He attended Kyushu University for his higher education and went on to become a researcher recognized on the international scientific stage. He has received the Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award (1995) and has been elected a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Name (English)

Takashi Gojobori

Name (Japanese)

五條堀孝

Reading

ごじょうぼり たかし

Born

October 24, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Biologist / Geneticist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

University

Kyushu University

Awards & achievements

• 1995 — Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award
• Year Unknown — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Year Unknown — Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94%E6%A2%9D%E5%A0%80%E5%AD%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532387

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Biologist
• Geneticist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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