Yoshiki Sasai

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshiki Sasai
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Mar 5, 1962(1962-03-05)
Age	62
Date Of Death	2014-08-05
Birthplace	Hyōgo Prefecture
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Pisces

Yoshiki Sasai Biography

Yoshiki Sasai is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on March 5, 1962 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. This prominent Japanese scientist is best known for his research in stem cell biology. He was the first person to successfully grow an embryonic optical cup using human stem cells. He was a professor at Kyoto University, and he also directed a section of the RIKEN research center.

Both he and He and Nobel Prize winner Osamu Shimomura were both prominent Japanese scientists. , the Nobel Prize winner, were prominent Japanese scientists.

Yoshiki Sasai (笹井 芳樹 , Sasai Yoshiki, 5 March 1962 – 5 August 2014) was a stem cell biologist. He developed methods to guide human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into forming brain cortex, eyes, and other organs in tissue culture. Sasai was one of the founding leaders of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, a premier research institute for biology in Japan and Director of the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis at the research institute RIKEN.

Subsequently Sasai worked as a research fellow at Edward M. De Robertis’s laboratory at UCLA School of Medicine until 1996. He became an associate professor at Kyoto University in 1996, and a full professor in 1998. In 2003, he moved to the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology as Director of the organogenesis and neurogenesis group.

He was born in Hyogo (Japan) and raised there. Tragically, he took his own life in the RIKEN research laboratory.

Yoshiki Sasai Net Worth

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

After graduating from Kyoto University’s School of Medicine, he was awarded a research fellowship at University of California- Los Angeles’ Medical School.

He was awarded the Osaka Prize in 2010 and the Inoue Prize in 2012.

Yoshiki Sasai was born in 1962 in Hyogo, Japan. He received his medical degree from Kyoto University’s School of Medicine in 1986. He was awarded a PhD from the Kyoto University’s School of Medicine in 1993 and recruited to play the sport he loved, American football, for Kyoto University when he studied medicine there. Sasai was then a resident at Kobe Municipal General Hospital.

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Yoshiki Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yoshiki Sasai celebrates birthday on March 5 of every year.