Shinya Yamanaka

Shinya Yamanaka (Japanese: Yamanaka Shinya/Yamanaka Shinya, Romanized: Yamanaka Shin'ya, September 4, 1962 -) is a Japanese stem cell scientist. He is currently a professor at Kyoto University, a senior researcher at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, and an honorary professor at Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences. Cultural Medal Commendation. Cultural meritorious person. Top 100 figures of the era. Professor Yamanaka was awarded Japan’s original BBVA Foundation Frontier Knowledge Award. He also won the 2011 Wolf Prize for Medicine with Rudolf Jenisch and the 2012 Millennium Science and Technology Prize with Linus Torvalds. In the same year, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir John Gurdon for "the discovery that mature cells can be rewritten into multifunctional cells." In 2013, he won another Life Science Breakthrough Award with a bonus of US$3 million.