Masayuki Yamato
Masayuki Yamato is a Japanese life scientist and a professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University. He specializes in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and cell biology, and known for research on cell sheets engineering.
He instructed Haruko Obokata there and wrote a paper on STAP cell with her, Charles Vacanti and Yoshiki Sasai.
He was interested in tacit knowing, a concept which Michael Polanyi and Shinichiro Kurimoto also developed.
Career
Yamato was born at Tokyo in 1964.He graduated from Tokyo University.