Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka | |
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Yamanaka in 2014 | |
| Born | September 4, 1962 Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Kobe University (MD) Osaka City University (PhD) |
| Known for | Induced pluripotent stem cell |
| Awards | Meyenburg Prize (2007) Massry Prize (2008) Robert Koch Prize (2008) Shaw Prize (2008) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2009) Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2009) Balzan Prize (2010) Kyoto Prize (2010) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010) Wolf Prize (2011) McEwen Award for Innovation (2011) Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) Millennium Technology Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Stem cell research |
| Institutions | Kyoto University Nara Institute of Science and Technology Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease University of California, San Francisco |
Shinya Yamanaka (山中 伸弥, Yamanaka Shin'ya; born September 4, 1962) is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem 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).
He received the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the biomedicine category, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Medicine with Rudolf Jaenisch, and the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize together with Linus Torvalds. In 2012, he and John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. In 2013, he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work.