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Shinya Yamanaka

Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012

Japan · b. 1962

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Physician and stem cell biologist, director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University. Trained as an orthopaedic surgeon before turning to basic research, and shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Gurdon for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 81 other answers →
Working at the hospital, I found that my surgical skills were not as good as I expected. One time it took me two hours to do a surgical operation which could have been completed in 30 minutes by other surgeons. My supervisors were very tough on new residents like me, and I lost confidence in my ability.
Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 2012 source ↗

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