Masayuki Yamato

Masayuki Yamato (大和 雅之) is a professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University. 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 in Tokyo in 1964 and he graduated from Tokyo University.

Works
'Gossipy Cells'(Oshaberina Saibou tachi　おしゃべりな細胞たち ) published by Kodansha