Many research areas build upon the stem cell work of Gladstone Senior Investigator Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD.
Kevin Eggan, PhD, of Harvard University, applied induced pluripotent stem cell derivation techniques pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka, MD, to generate the first motor neurons from skin samples of ALS patients.
# Sir John Gurdon (1933–) – in 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
After a 20-year gap, he competed in the inaugural Osaka Marathon in 2011 as a charity runner with a time of 4:29:53.
Shinya Yamanaka | Yamanaka Onsen | Shinya Ōtaki | Shinya Aoki | Lois-Ann Yamanaka | Hiromi Shinya | cover of ''Japanesque'' with Akira Ito and Joe Yamanaka |