Takashi Gojobori (五條堀 孝, Gojobori Takashi, born October 24, 1951, Fukuoka) is a Japanese molecular biologist, Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) at NIG, in Mishima, Japan.

Gojobori is a Distinguished Professor[1] at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

[1] He has also been co-appointed as the Special Research Consultant of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and acts as a visiting professor of Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

[citation needed] He is leader of the Japanese team of the H-Invitational international consortium who was tasked with creating a database linking the 21,037 validated human genes to their biological function.

In recent years, he has focused on the evolution of the brain and central nervous system,[3][4][5][6][7] and COVID-19 or virus transmissions.