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.