Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanakais a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher. He serves as the director of Center for iPS CellResearch and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco. Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 September 1962
CountryJapan
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.