1. Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate.
25 Facts About Shinya Yamanaka
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Shinya Yamanaka is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS 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.
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Shinya Yamanaka 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.
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Shinya Yamanaka is currently a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Research and Application, Kyoto University.
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Shinya Yamanaka is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes.
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Between 1987 and 1989, Shinya Yamanaka was a resident in orthopedic surgery at the National Osaka Hospital.
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Shinya Yamanaka's wife advised him to become a practicing doctor, but instead he applied for a position at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
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Shinya Yamanaka stated that he could and would clarify the characteristics of embryonic stem cells, and this can-do attitude won him the job.
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Shinya Yamanaka became a full professor and remained at the institute in that position from 2003 to 2005.
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Between 2004 and 2010, Shinya Yamanaka was a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University.
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Between 2010 and 2022, Shinya Yamanaka was the director and a professor at the center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University.
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Shinya Yamanaka concluded that differentiated somatic cell nuclei had the potential to revert to pluripotency.
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Shinya Yamanaka proved that introduction of a small set of transcription factors into a differentiated cell was sufficient to revert the cell to a pluripotent state.
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Shinya Yamanaka focused on factors that are important for maintaining pluripotency in embryonic stem cells.
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In July 2014, during a scandal involving Japanese stem cell researcher Haruko Obokata fabricating data, doctoring images, and plagiarizing the work of others, Shinya Yamanaka faced public scrutiny for his associated work lacking full documentation.
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Shinya Yamanaka denied manipulating images in his papers on embryonic mouse stem cells, but he could not find lab notes to confirm that the raw data was consistent with the published results.
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In 2022, Shinya Yamanaka factors were shown to effect age related measures in aged mice.
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In 2007, Shinya Yamanaka was recognized as a "Person Who Mattered" in the Time Person of the Year edition of Time magazine.
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In June 2010, Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the Kyoto Prize for reprogramming adult skin cells to pluripotential precursors.
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Shinya Yamanaka developed the method as an alternative to embryonic stem cells, thus circumventing an approach in which embryos would be destroyed.
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In May 2010, Shinya Yamanaka was given "Doctor of Science honorary degree" by Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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Shinya Yamanaka has been listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist magazine on May 15,2011.
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Shinya Yamanaka shared the 1.2 million euro prize with Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel.
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Shinya Yamanaka practiced judo and played rugby as a university student.
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Shinya Yamanaka took part in Kyoto Marathon to raise money for iPS research since 2012.