343 days ago - The acclaimed Japanese embryonic stem cell scientist joined the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease this summer, where he will serve as a senior investigator in stem cell biology and a professor of anatomy at UC San Francisco. While still at Kyoto University in August 2006, Yamanaka was the first scientist to report, in the journal Cell, on a new method for “reprogramming” skin cells from mice into cells that mimic embryonic stem cells.