Haruko Obokata

Quick Facts

Full Name	Haruko Obokata
Occupation	Researcher
Date Of Birth	Sep 25, 1983(1983-09-25)
Age	41
Birthplace	Matsudo
Country	Japan
Birth City	Chiba Prefecture
Horoscope	Libra

Haruko Obokata Biography

Haruko Obokata is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on September 25, 1983 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Obokata became a guest researcher at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in 2011, and she was appointed as head of the Lab for Cellular Reprogramming in 2013. In 2014, she published two papers in the journal Nature.

After completing her master’s, Obokata went on to study stem cells and regenerative medicine at the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, a cooperative research and education facility operated with Tokyo Women’s Medical University. She then undertook research at Harvard Medical School in Boston under Charles Vacanti for two years before returning to Waseda University to complete her Ph.D. in engineering, again, from the Graduate School of Advanced Engineering and Science in 2011. According to an Asahi Shimbun news report, Obokata had offered to retract her doctoral dissertation following allegations that she may have copied and pasted some segments of her dissertation from publicly available documents posted in the U.S. National Institute of Health website.

Haruko Obokata Net Worth

Haruko Obokata is one of the richest Researcher from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Haruko Obokata 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Obokata was born in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan, in 1983. She attended Toho Senior High School, which is attached to Toho University, and graduated from Waseda University. At Waseda University, Obokata undertook undergraduate studies in the Department of Applied Chemistry, within the School of Science and Engineering, earning a Bachelor of Science in 2006, and graduate studies in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, earning a Master of Science in applied chemistry in 2008.

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In October 2014, an investigative panel appointed by Waseda University gave Obokata one year to revise her Ph.D dissertation or lose her degree. One year later, Waseda University announced that it was revoking Obokata’s Ph.D.

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In manipulating the image data of two different gels and using data from two different experiments, Dr. Obokata acted in a manner that can by no means be permitted. This cannot be explained solely by her immaturity as a researcher. Given the poor quality of her laboratory notes it has become clearly evident that it will be extremely difficult for anyone else to accurately trace or understand her experiments, and this, too, is considered a serious obstacle to healthy information exchange. Dr. Obokata’s actions and sloppy data management lead us to the conclusion that she sorely lacks, not only a sense of research ethics, but also integrity and humility as a scientific researcher.

What did Haruko Obokata do?

Obokata shot to prominence in January 2014 when she published two breakthrough articles in Nature , one of the world’s top science journals. She and her colleagues had demonstrated a surprisingly simple way of turning ordinary body cells – she used mouse blood cells – into something very much like embryonic stem cells.

Did Dr Obokata Act represent research misconduct?

The growing storm over Obokata’s research prompted Riken to launch an investigation into her work. At a press conference in Japan on Tuesday, the committee said it had found evidence of falsification and fabrication – offences that constitute research misconduct.

Do STAP cells exist?

Although it cannot be said with 100% certainty that STAP cells do not exist , Obokata is the only scientist claiming they are real. These “dream cells,” as they were introduced to the world, are widely thought to be the product of a young researcher at a major Japanese research institute.

What do you mean by pluripotency?

Definition. Pluripotency describes the ability of a cell to develop into the three primary germ cell layers of the early embryo and therefore into all cells of the adult body, but not extra-embryonic tissues such as the placenta.

Why is fabrication wrong?

Not only does fabrication affect scientific careers, but when fabricated data is presented to be real and is consequently used in real-life practice it can have life-threatening consequences. One case of research misconduct estimates that up to 800,000 lives were lost due to fabrication of data of a single perpetrator.