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Shinya was born on September 4th, 1962 in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan.

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Yamanaka receives his medical degree from Kobe University.

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Yamanaka earns his doctorate from the medical school at Osaka City University.

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Yamanaka completes his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes.

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Yamanaka joins Osaka City University Medical School as an assistant professor.

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Yamanaka joins the Nara Institute of Science and Technology as an assistant professor.

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Yamanaka is appointed a professor at Kyoto University's Center for Frontier Medical Sciences.

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Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are a technique developed by Yamanaka that allows adult cells to be transformed into pluripotent stem cells.

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Yamanaka's groundbreaking study on iPS cells, which shows that mature cells may be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state without the assistance of embryonic stem cells, is published in Cell.

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Yamanaka receives the esteemed Kyoto Prize for his work on stem cells.

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Yamanaka received the Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research in recognition of his discovery of iPS cells.

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Yamanaka and British researcher John Gurdon are given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work showing that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent stem cells.

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2013 - Appointed director of Kyoto University 

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2013 - Appointed director of Kyoto University 

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Yamanaka is appointed director of Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA).

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2016 - Appointed director of Tokyo center for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine

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2016 - Appointed director of Tokyo center for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine

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Yamanaka was appointed director of the University of Tokyo's Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

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2019 - American national academy of sciences 

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2019 - American national academy of sciences 

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Yamanaka gets chosen as a Foreign Associate of the American National Academy of Sciences.

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Yamanaka continues to study iPS cells and their potential use in disease models and regenerative therapy