Nobel prize winners in medicine says:

"I am honored to share this award with John Gurdon. Without his work, I could never have started mine"


Shinya Yamanaka

"I think I'm very lucky and am grateful to have come to Gladstone as a young scientist,"


Shinya Yamanaka

"Shinya Yamanaka was able to recreate the magic that John Gurdon started 50 years ago,"

"My goal, all my life, is to bring this stem cell technology to the bedside, to patients, to clinics ..."

Yamanaka

"What I learned at Gladstone was to have "VW:" a Vision, and how to Work hard,"

Shinya Yamanaka

"Our biggest hurdle is safety in patients. That's what we have been spending most of our time—and we are getting closer,"

Shinya Yamanaka

“I really want to help as many patients as possible.”

Shinya Yamanaka

..."he can't learn simple Biological facts."

- Nobel Prize winner John Gurdon's school report from Eton, 1949 (age 15).

"If you can cook, you can
make stem cells."

Yamanaka said.

"I remember after my paper was published, there was a stem cell meeting in Long Island," he said. "I went to the hotel bar after the meeting, to have a beer, and I overheard somebody
talking about my paper. They were saying, 'It's not
possible. It's just not possible.'

"I just quietly escaped,"
Yamanaka said with a smile.

"I think that personalised
medicine would become
readily available in the not
distant future,"


Yamanaka said.

Shinya Yamanaka sits in
his Gladstone Institute
laboratory.

Photo: Brant Ward, The
Chronicle / SF

"Only when we confirm the
safety and effectiveness of
stem cell therapies with
animals will we initiate
clinical trials using a small
number of patients."


Yamanaka said

"I hope patients and lay
people can understand there are two kinds of stem cell therapies. One is what we are trying to establish. It is solely based on scientific data. We have been conducting preclinical work, experiments with animals, like rats and monkeys,"

Yamanaka said.

"There is much promising
research going on,"

Yamanaka said.