Shinya Yamanaka

Director and Professor Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University

As a 2012 Nobel Prize Laureate, Shinya Yamanka’s work on stem cells has gained him international recognition. Discovering the medical applications of induced pluripotent stem cells has been a major focus for the researcher since he first reprogrammed human cells in 2007.

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