Shinya Yamanaka on “New Era of Medicine with iPS Cells” at The Cell Press–TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series

Bangalore, Karnataka, India:Shinya Yamanaka, the Japanese physician and celebrated adult stem cell researcher, will deliver the Third Edition of The Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series in Bengaluru, Chennai, and New Delhi in January-February 2012. His Lecture is titled “New Era of Medicine with iPS Cells”. The schedule of the Lectures is given below.

Professor Yamanaka’s scientific breakthrough was the creation of embryonic-like stem cells from adult skin cells. Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer of Advanced Cell Technology and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University, has said that Yamanaka's work "is likely to be the most important stem-cell breakthrough of all time. The ability to generate an unlimited supply of patient-specific stem cells will revolutionize the future of medicine."

Professor Yamanaka divides his time between Kyoto and San Francisco. He serves as the Director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and as Professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University. He is also a Senior Investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes and a Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Shinya Yamanaka’s career in science has been a distinguished one. He was awarded the Albert Lasker Prize in 2009 and The Wolf Prize in 2011. These cap a long list of awards that are detailed below.

More about Professor Yamanaka’s Research

Lecture Schedule

Bengaluru: Monday, January 30, 2012, 4.30 p.m., JN Tata Auditorium, National Science Seminar Complex, Indian Institute of Science, C.V. Raman Road.

Chennai: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 6.00 p.m., Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, (Lady Andal School Premises), Harrington Road, Chetpet.

New Delhi: Friday, February 3, 2012, 4.30 p.m., Teen Murti Auditorium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi.

The Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series

The Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series is co-sponsored by Cell Press and TNQ Books and Journals.

Planned as an annual event, these Lectures are held in three cities each year and are aimed at bringing internationally renowned scientists face to face with the Indian scientific community.

The Inaugural Speaker of the Lecture Series was David Baltimore, the American biologist who is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. In 1975, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco.

The Second Speaker was Elizabeth Blackburn, the Australian-born, American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak.

About Cell Press

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TNQ is an equal opportunity employer and is blind to gender, religion, caste, and ethnicity. The Company has a firm commitment to employee and community welfare and to the world of Indian science and its development.

Further reading on Professor Shinya Yamanaka

http://www.gladstone.ucsf.edu/gladstone/site/yamanaka/

http://www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/ppl/grp/yamanaka.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204683204574358170813148330.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/science/11prof.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1325150233-WvzZXTIQ6Zwrwa6ScbSc+w

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