Shinya Yamanaka
Director and Professor Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
Meet Shinya Yamanaka
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.