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
Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
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 thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.