Yukiko Yamashita

Yukiko Yamashita (born 1971) is an American developmental biologist. She will join the Whitehead Institute in September 2020 and has been appointed a Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She will be the inaugural incumbent of the Susan Lindquist Chair for Women in Science at Whitehead Institute. She is a faculty member of the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and is a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School.[1] She was appointed an HHMI Investigator in 2013. In November 2013 she received a 5-year appointment as the James Playfair McMurrich Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Yukiko Yamashita
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKyoto University, Stanford University
AwardsKeck Foundation Award (2012)
Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Academic advisorsMargaret T. Fuller

She received a Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award in 2016,[2] a Keck Foundation Award in 2012. She is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow[3] and a 2008 Searle Scholar.[4]

Life

She graduated from Kyoto University with a BS and PhD in Biophysics, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Margaret T. Fuller at Stanford University from 2001 to 2006.[5]

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gollark: Ah yes, a natural 19.
gollark: ++roll d20
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References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. The 2nd Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 25, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.searlescholars.net/person/16
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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