The Asian Scientist 100
Masayo Takahashi
Professor
Institution
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Country
Japan
Field
Biomedical Sciences
Takahashi was placed on Nature magazine’s “Nature’s 10 2014” for carrying out the first-ever induced pluripotent stem cell clinical study for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration. Since the surgery in 2014, the patient has shown no tumor formation, Takahashi’s team says.
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