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 | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University, Stanford University |
| Awards | Keck Foundation Award (2012) Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award (2016) |
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| Fields | Developmental biology |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Academic advisors | Margaret 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]
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- The 2nd Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 25, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.searlescholars.net/person/16
- "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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