Yukiko Yamashita

Yukiko Yamashita
Yukiko Yamashita
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Kyoto University, Stanford University
Awards	Keck Foundation Award (2012); Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award (2016)
	Scientific career
Fields	Developmental biology
Institutions	University of Michigan
Academic advisors	Margaret T. Fuller

Yukiko Yamashita (born 1971) is an American developmental biologist. She is a faculty member of the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and associate professor for the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School.^[1] She was appointed an HHMI Investigator in 2013. In November 2013 she received a 5-year appointment as the James Playfair McMurrich Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School.

She received a Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award in 2016,^[2] a Keck Foundation Award in 2012. She is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow^[3] and a 2008 Searle Scholar.^[4]

Life

She graduated from Kyoto University with a BS and PhD in Biophysics, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Margaret T. Fuller at Stanford University from 2001 to 2006.^[5]

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