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|religion = |signature = |footnotes = }} is a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher.〔〔〔 He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). He received the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine category. Also he received the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2011 with Rudolf Jaenisch; the Millennium Technology Prize in 2012 together with Linus Torvalds. In 2012 he and John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Nobel Media AB )〕 In 2013 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work. == Education == Yamanaka was born in Higashiōsaka Japan in 1962. After graduating from Tennōji High School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University,〔http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2012/10/186903.html〕 he received his M.D. at Kobe University in 1987 and his PhD at Osaka City University Graduate School in 1993. After this, he went through a residency in orthopedic surgery at National Osaka Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco. Afterwards he worked at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, USA and Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Yamanaka is currently a Professor at Kyoto University, where he directs its Center for iPS Research and Application. He is also a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes as well as the director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application.〔"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 28 Nov 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shinya Yamanaka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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