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Shinya Yamanaka

Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)

  • Fame60.0
  • Momentum18.8
  • Doctors rank#61
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  • Fame60.0
  • Momentum18.8
  • Doctors rank#61
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Born 1962 · age 64Japan
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  • Age
    64
    Born 1962
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-09-07

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University; as well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California and 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).

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Momentum18.8
Historical22.9
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Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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