Shinya Yamanaka
The Power List 2017 – Masters of the Bench
Shinya Yamanaka
Director and Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),
Kyoto University
Shinya has made The Power List for the third year running for his pioneering work on stem cells. After reprogramming adult mouse (2006) and human (2007) somatic cells into what are now called induced pluripotent stem cells, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2012.
