Shinya Yamanaka

Yamanaka in 2014 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Broader Implications of Defining Standards for the Pluripotency of iPSCs

    Broader Implications of Defining Standards for the Pluripotency of iPSCs by Daley, George Q., Lensch, M. William, Jaenisch, Rudolf, Meissner, Alexander, Plath, Kathrin, Yamanaka, Shinya

    Published 2015
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    Water-assisted synthesis of mesoporous calcium carbonate with a controlled specific surface area and its potential to ferulic acid release

    Water-assisted synthesis of mesoporous calcium carbonate with a controlled specific surface area and its potential to ferulic acid release by Kadota, Kazunori, Ibe, Toi, Sugawara, Yuto, Takano, Hitomi, Yusof, Yus Aniza, Uchiyama, Hiromasa, Tozuka, Yuichi, Yamanaka, Shinya

    Published 2020
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