Yukiko Yamashita

Yukiko Yamashita
Nationality American
Fields Developmental biology
Institutions University of Michigan
Alma mater Kyoto University, Stanford University
Academic advisors Margaret T. Fuller
Notable awards Keck Foundation Award (2012)
Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award (2016)

Yukiko Yamashita (born 1971) is an American developmental biologist. She is a faculty member of the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and associate professor for 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.

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

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  2. The 2nd Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 25, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  4. http://www.searlescholars.net/person/16
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.


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