“My mission now is to advance iPS cell research in cooperation with many researchers around the world and bring the technology to medicine as soon as possible.”
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Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS 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 p…
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science · Japanese stem cell researcher (born 1962) · physician · surgeon · physicist · geneticist · researcher · university teacher · pharmacologist · also Shinya Yamanaka, Shinya_Υamanaka, Shin’ya Yamanaka, Yamanaka
Born 4 September 1962 · Q80917
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Yamanaka factors were shown to effect age related measures in aged mice
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2017· 1 entry
PBS: Shinya Yamanaka
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,420 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 5,671 times.
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013).
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IPS cells were used to generate a human vascularized and functional liver in mice in Japan
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Was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work
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2012· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
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Awarded Order of Culture (2012).
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Awarded Millennium Technology Prize (2012).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012).
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And John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2011· 4 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (2011).
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Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Medicine (2011).
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Awarded Albany Medical Center Prize (2011).
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As a charity runner with a time of 4:29:53
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2010· 7 entries
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2010).
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (2010).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2010).
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Awarded Imperial Prize of Japan Academy (2010).
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Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010).
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Awarded Balzan Prize (2010).
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Awarded March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (2009).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2009).
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2008· 6 entries
Awarded Robert Koch Prize (2008).
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Awarded Massry Prize (2008).
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Awarded Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize (2008).
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Awarded Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (2008).
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Awarded Rosenstiel Award (2008).
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Published “Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States” in Science — cited 3,976 times.
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2007· 7 entries
Awarded Asahi Prize (2007).
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Awarded Meyenburg Prize (2007).
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Were the first to produce human iPS cells
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Yamanaka and his colleagues found iPS cells with germline transmission (via selecting for Oct4 or Nanog gene)
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Yamanaka was recognized as a "Person Who Mattered" in the Time Person of the Year edition of Time magazine
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Published “Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors” in Cell — cited 17,458 times.
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Published “Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells” in Nature — cited 3,610 times.
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2006· 2 entries
And his team generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) from adult mouse fibroblasts
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Published “Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors” in Cell — cited 22,594 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms” in Nature — cited 3,737 times.
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-09-04.
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