Yamanaka serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, or “Kyodai,” a national university located in Kyoto, Japan; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a center of health sciences research, patient care, and education, located in San Francisco, California. He is also the current president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
In 2011, he received the Wolf Prize in Medicine, awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, with Rudolf Jaenisch, a biologist at MIT. This year, he won two prizes: the Millenium Technology Prize, the largest technology prizes in the world, together with Linus Torvalds, a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who has the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel; and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, administered by the Nobel Foundation, awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine, together with John B. Gurdon.
Yamanaka practiced judo and played rugby as a university student. He also has a history of running marathons. After a 20-year gap, in 2011, he competed in the inaugural Osaka Marathon, an annual marathon road running event for men and women over the classic distance of 42.195 km which is held in late October in the city of Osaka, Japan, as a charity runner with a time of 4:29:53. He also took part in the 2012 Tokyo Marathon, an annual marathon sporting event in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, to raise money for iPS research, finishing 4:03:19. He will also run in the second Osaka Marathon on November 25, 2012.
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