Kyoto University iPS cell research has become ‘repetitive’: director

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New CiRA leader seeks diversification after relying ‘too much’ on Nobel winner Yamanaka

Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka remains the standard-bearer for research on induced pluripotent stem cells. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Shinya Yamanaka and Kosaku Mimura)

YASUKI OKAMOTO and SATOSHI KAWAHARA

OSAKA/TOKYO — In the two decades since the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells by Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka, the university’s core research center for the technology “relied too much on our star researcher,” said Koji Eto, who became its director in April.