The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
Awarded on: 2012-10-08
"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
Affiliations:
- Kyoto University – Kyoto, Japan
- Gladstone Institutes – San Francisco, CA, USA
Shinya Yamanaka
Born: 1962-09-04 in Osaka, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese stem cell researcher (born 1962)
Biography
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).