Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka, Briton John Gurdon win 2012 Nobel prize for medicine/physiology

Shinya Yamanaka
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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 Int
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Kyoto University Prof. Shinya Yamanaka Welcomes Progress Made since iPS Cell Creation, Says Much More Remains to be Done
Physician and scientist Shin'ya Yamanaka to receive an honorary PhD from the University of Bologna
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Nobel Winner Shinya Yamanaka: Cell Therapy Is ‘Very Promising’ For Cancer, Parkinson’s, More
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 awarded for discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
Shinya Yamanaka, L.K. Whittier Foundation Investigator, Gladstone Institute, San Francisco