About Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University; as well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California and a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
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Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
Robert Koch Prize
Order of Culture
Wolf Prize in Medicine
Balzan Prize
Asahi Prize
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
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Canada Gairdner International Award
Rosenstiel Award
Millennium Technology Prize
Massry Prize
Meyenburg Prize
Person of Cultural Merit
Albany Medical Center Prize
Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize
Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
Clarivate Citation Laureates
King Faisal International Prize in Medicine
Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong