On Wednesday, November 12, Dr. Takashi Gojobori, Associate Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center, a world-renowned expert on molecular evolution and comparative genomics, received an honorary doctoral degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in southern Taiwan.
The honorary degree was conferred in recognition of his contributions to evolutionary genomics and molecular evolution. KAUST vice president for academic affairs, Dr. James A. Calvin, led a nine-member delegation to NCKU to participate in the conferring ceremony for Gojobori.
Before joining KAUST, Gojobori was a professor at the Center of Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan. He was also vice director of the National Institute of Genetics in Japan.