Hideyuki Okano (Japanese: 岡野栄之) (born 26 January 1959 in Tokyo, Japan[3]) is a Japanese physiology professor and the current dean of Keio University School of Medicine.
[2] He is also the team leader of the Laboratory for Marmoset Neural Architecture, at RIKEN Brain Science Institute.
His lab is the first in the world to produce transgenic marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) with germline transmission.
[4] Okano graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1983.
He worked for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine between 1989 and 1993.