10 Facts About Hajime Tei

Hajime Tei is a Japanese neuroscientist specializing in the study of chronobiology.

Hajime Tei is most notable for his contributions to the discovery of the mammalian period genes, which he discovered alongside Yoshiyuki Sakaki and Hitoshi Okamura.

Between 1991 and 1992, Tei was a fellow for the Fellowships of the Japan Society for Japanese Junior Scientists at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science.

Hajime Tei later held the position of assistant professor and associate professor.

In 2004, Hajime Tei became the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Chronogenomics at Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences.

Hajime Tei received the 13th Tsukahara Memorial Award in 1999, and the Aschoff-Honma Prize for chronobiology in 2001.

Hajime Tei was part of a team that discovered feeding cycles can entrain liver independently of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the light cycle.

In 2016, a research team that included Hajime Tei discovered that clock genes, most specifically Bmal1 and Per1, are rhythmically expressed in osteoblasts to modulate the osteoblast-dependent regulation of osteoclastogenesis by regulating 1,252D3-induced Rankl expression in osteoblasts.

Hajime Tei holds a patent on a Per1 promoter sequence that, when operably linked to another gene, will rhythmically promote its transcription.

From early in his professional career to his work current projects, Hajime Tei has worked with many other chronobiologists.