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Also known as Shinya_Υamanaka, Shin’ya 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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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2012

    “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Shin'ya
Gender
male
Citizenship
Japan
Position held
professor
Languages spoken
Japanese
Field of work
medicine
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Shinya Yamanaka
date of birth
1962-09-04
name in kana
やまなか しんや
name in native language
山中伸弥
interested in
medicine
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Encyclopedic overview

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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