Shinya Yamanaka

Professor Shinya Yamanaka received his M.D. from Kobe University in 1987 and a Ph.D. from Osaka City University Graduate School in 1993. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, he became an assistant professor at Osaka City University in 1996. He was appointed as an associate professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 1999, and a professor in 2003. He moved to Kyoto University in 2004, and since 2008, Yamanaka serves as the director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University. He has received awards including “Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award” in 2009, “Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize” in 2010, “Kyoto Prize” in 2010, and “Wolf Prize’’ in 2011, and “Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine” in 2012. He also serves as a senior investigator at Gladstone, a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Japan Academy.