Shin'ya Yamanaka

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Shinya Yamanaka (2013)

Shin'ya Yamanaka ( Japanese 山 中 伸 弥 , Yamanaka Shin'ya ; born September 4, 1962 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese doctor and stem cell researcher . He is Director of the Center for iPS Cell Research (CiRA) at the University of Kyoto and Professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences there . In 2012, he and John Gurdon were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be transformed into stem cells .

Live and act

In 1987 Yamanaka completed his medical studies at Kobe University , and in 1993 he received his doctorate from Osaka City University . He then completed his internship in orthopedic surgery at Osaka State Hospital and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco. 2006 succeeded his group and him on reproductive medicine Institute of Kyoto University, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), pluripotent stem cells, connective tissue cells of mice to create. In 2007 he and his working group at the newly founded Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences at the University of Kyoto achieved the same success with human connective tissue cells. He cites his dissatisfaction with the fact that embryos had to be destroyed in order to get stem cells as the motive for choosing his research area.

Awards (selection)

In November 2007, Yamanaka received the Meyenburg Prize from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Asahi Prize for the artificial production of stem cells . In 2008 he was awarded the Robert Koch Prize together with Hans R. Schöler and Irving L. Weissman , and the Shaw Prize together with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell . In 2009 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award and, together with John Gurdon, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research . In 2010 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize , the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology , the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and the Balzan Prize . In 2011, Yamanaka was awarded the Wolf Prize for Medicine together with Rudolf Jaenisch and the Albany Medical Center Prize together with Elaine Fuchs and James A. Thomson . Also in 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . He was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize in 2012 and, together with John Gurdon, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . In 2013 he was among the first to win the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences . In the same year he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences , in 2016 of the Académie des sciences and in 2017 a full member of the Pontifical Academy for Life . In 2010 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits , in 2012 he was awarded the Order of Culture .

Fonts (selection)

  • Kazutoshi Takahashi, Shinya Yamanaka: Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors . In: Cell . tape 126 , no. 4 , 2006, p. 663-676 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cell.2006.07.024 .

Web links

Commons : Shinya Yamanaka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 再生 医学 研究所 , saisei igaku kenkyūjo , the English name of the institute is Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences
  2. ↑ Kazutoshi Takahashi, Keisuke Okita, Masato Nakagawa, Shinya Yamanaka: Induction of pluripotent stem cells from fibroblast cultures . In: Nature Protocols . Vol. 2, No. 12 , 2007, p. 3081-9 , doi : 10.1038 / nprot.2007.418 , PMID 18079707 .
  3. ↑ Masato Nakagawa, Michiyo Koyanagi, Koji Tanabe, Kazutoshi Takahashi, Tomoko Ichisaka, Takashi Aoi, Keisuke Okita, Yuji Mochiduki, Nanako Takizawa, Shinya Yamanaka: Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells without Myc from mouse and human fibroblasts . In: Nature Biotechnology . Vol. 26, No. 1 , January 2008, p. 101-6 , doi : 10.1038 / nbt1374 , PMID 18059259 .
  4. ^ Martin Fackler: Risk Taking Is in His Genes. In: The New York Times , December 11, 2007.
  5. ^ Recipients of 2011 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine Announced at amc.edu; Retrieved April 16, 2011
  6. ↑ Millennium Prize Foundation: Laureates 2012 ( Memento from April 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), April 19, 2012 (English)
  7. ^ Nomina di Membri Ordinari della Pontificia Accademia per la Vita. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 13, 2017, accessed June 13, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Yamanaka, Shin'ya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山 中 伸 弥 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka prefecture