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Dr. Shinya Yamanaka

Nobel Laureate & Senior Investigator
Gladstone Institutes & Department of Anatomy · University of California, San Francisco

Field: biologyLocation: San Francisco, California, United StatesInstitutional homepage ↗

Research Biography & Scholarly Focus

Dr. Yamanaka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the breakthrough discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

Department & Affiliation

Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Faculty Division: Gladstone Institutes & Department of Anatomy
Supervision / Inquiries: Contact directly via official department directory

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