| Shinya Yamanaka received his M.D. from Kobe University in 1987 and his Ph.D. from Osaka City University Graduate School in 1993. From 1987 to 1989 Professor Yamanaka was a resident in National Osaka Hospital and he spent the period from 1993 to 1995 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco and was appointed as a staff research investigator at the same institute in 1995. He returned to Osaka City University Medical School to take an assistant professor position in 1996, and was subsequently appointed an associate professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 1999, where he became a full professor in 2003. He then moved on to take up his current position as a professor in the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University in 2004. His research focuses on generating pluripotent stem cells directly from somatic cells by defined factors. |
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