Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
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Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese medical scientist best known for discovering how to reprogram adult cells into a more primitive state, essentially turning back their biological clock. This breakthrough earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and opened up new possibilities for disease research and potential regenerative medicine treatments.
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Video of a single beating cardiomyocyte, taken from an open-access article co-authored by Yamanaka. Isolating cells by cell type is an important step in stem cell therapy. Shinya Yamanaka speaking at a lecture on 2010 January 14 Yamanaka and Ryōji Noyori participating in the ceremony of the 50th All Japan Rugby Football Championship
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 well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California and 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).
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1962 births21st-century Japanese biologistsAcademic staff of Kyoto UniversityAcademic staff of Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyBiogerontologistsForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesJapanese cell biologistsJapanese Nobel laureatesKobe University alumniKyoto laureates in Advanced TechnologyLaureates of the Imperial Prize