Shinya Yamanaka

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Shinya Yamanaka (山中 伸弥, Yamanaka Shin'ya^?) is a Japanese physician and stem cell researcher. He serves as a professor at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University.

He received his M.D. at Kobe University in 1987 and his Ph.D. 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 Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco. In 2006, he and his team generated Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - pluripotent stem cells from adult mouse fibroblasts. In 2007, he and his team were able to generate Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from human adult fibroblasts.

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• Shinya Yamanaka MD., Ph.D.
• Fackler, Martin. "Risk Taking Is in His Genes", The New York Times, 2007-12-11. Retrieved on 2007-12-11. 

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