Shinya Yamanaka

Shinya Yamanaka (山中 伸弥, Yamanaka Shin'ya, born September 4, 1962) is a Japanese <a href="/facts/Stem_cell/qgB9dFrI">stem cell</a> researcher and a <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize/3z1Y3oFL">Nobel Prize</a> laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (<a href="/facts/Induced_Pluripotent_Stem_Cell/bGItax29">induced Pluripotent Stem Cell</a>) Research and Application, <a href="/facts/Kyoto_University/fxhusvuc">Kyoto University</a>; as a senior investigator at the <a href="/facts/UCSF/tPU2yHuW">UCSF</a>-affiliated <a href="/facts/Gladstone_Institutes/RTk5uEdL">Gladstone Institutes</a> in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_San_Francisco/tPU2yHuW">University of California, San Francisco</a> (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the <a href="/facts/International_Society_for_Stem_Cell_Research/6pz2mzUI">International Society for Stem Cell Research</a> (ISSCR).
He received the 2010 <a href="/facts/BBVA_Foundation_Frontiers_of_Knowledge_Award/Fqjoajw5">BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award</a> in the biomedicine category, the 2011 <a href="/facts/Wolf_Prize_in_Medicine/LCntDMWX">Wolf Prize in Medicine</a> with <a href="/facts/Rudolf_Jaenisch/l0GvdIjm">Rudolf Jaenisch</a>, and the 2012 <a href="/facts/Millennium_Technology_Prize/GJUP4t0Q">Millennium Technology Prize</a> together with <a href="/facts/Linus_Torvalds/EdDKP534">Linus Torvalds</a>. In 2012, he and <a href="/facts/John_Gurdon/ahY231IR">John Gurdon</a> were awarded the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_for_Physiology_or_Medicine/rlnpJX84">Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine</a> for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to <a href="/facts/Stem_cells/qgB9dFrI">stem cells</a>. In 2013, he was awarded the $3 million <a href="/facts/Breakthrough_Prize_in_Life_Sciences/QJCb2m8F">Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences</a> for his work.

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Shinya Yamanaka