Shinya Yamanaka

Premios

1. 2008

   Premio Shaw — Ciencias de la vida y medicina

   Biología

   For their recent pivotal innovations in reversing the process of cell differentiation in mammals, a phenomenon which advances our knowledge of developmental biology and holds great promise for the treatment of human diseases and improvements in agriculture practices.

2. 2009

   Premio Internacional Canadá Gairdner

   Biología

   For his demonstration that the key transcription factors which specify pluripotency may become reprogrammed somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells.

3. 2009

   Premio Lasker — Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   Biología

   For discoveries concerning nuclear reprogramming, the process that instructs specialized adult cells to form early stem cells — creating the potential to become any type of mature cell for experimental or therapeutic purposes.

4. 2010

   Premio Kioto — Tecnología avanzada

   Informática

   Development of Technology for Generating Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells.

5. 2011

   Premio Wolf — Medicina

   Biología

   for the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) from skin cells.

6. 2012

   Premio de Tecnología del Milenio

   Biología

   In recognition of his discovery of a new method to develop induced pluripotent stem cells for medical research.

7. 2012

   Premio Nobel — Medicina

   Biología

   for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

8. 2013

   Premio Breakthrough — Ciencias de la vida

   Biología

   for induced pluripotent stem cells.