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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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However, it was very natural that a failed surgeon with little experience in molecular biology had a hard time finding a position. A turning point came when I got a fax from Thomas Innerarity at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in San Francisco. After a short telephone conversation, Tom was brave enough to give me a postdoctoral position in his lab! Working at Gladstone was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.

Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 2012 source ↗

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