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Shinya Yamanaka

1962 - Today

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Shinya Yamanaka (山中 伸弥, Yamanaka Shin'ya; born September 4, 1962) is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated 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 the biomedicine category, the 2011 Wolf Prize in Medicine with Rudolf Jaenisch, and the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize together with Linus Torvalds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shinya Yamanaka is the 327th most popular physician (up from 347th in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 746th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Physician. Learn more about Shinya Yamanaka's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 327 out of 726. Before him are Tomáš Špidlík, Titus Brandsma, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Vincenz Priessnitz, Leon Pinsker, and Gerard van Swieten. After him are Sigmund Rascher, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Thomas Sydenham, Bronisława Dłuska, Carlos Finlay, and Aletta Jacobs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 90. Before him are Hirokazu Kore-eda, Takashi Murakami, Barry E. Wilmore, Paula Abdul, Flea, and Srettha Thavisin. After him are Ollanta Humala, Suzanne Collins, Joan Cusack, Manuel Valls, Edvard Moser, and Imad Mughniyah.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 722 out of 6,245. Before him are Ikuo Takahara (1957), Ii Naosuke (1815), Aritatsu Ogi (1942), Shō Shin (1465), Isao Tomita (1932), and Emperor Shijō (1231). After him are Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Izumi Shikibu (976), Shō Hashi (1371), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Keizo Imai (1950), and Takahashi Korekiyo (1854).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Shinya Yamanaka ranks 6. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Tasuku Honjo (1942), and Hiraga Gennai (1728). After him are Kusumoto Ine (1827), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Sunao Tawara (1873).

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