Yoshiki Sasai
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Yoshiki Sasai (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. Sasai was best known for developing new methods to grow stem cells into organ-like structures.In 2012, Sasai became the first stem cell researcher to grow an optic cup from human cells.On August 5, 2014, he was found dead hanging at the RIKEN institute.
It is believed that he committed suicide.
Early life and education
Yoshiki Sasai was born in 1962 in Hyogo, Japan. He received his medical degree from Kyoto University's School of Medicine in 1986. In 1993 Sasai was awarded a PhD from the Kyoto University School of Medicine, and served a residency at Kobe Municipal General Hospital.
Career
Sasai served as a research fellow at Edward M. De Robertis' lab at UCLA School of Medicine until 1996. Sasai began as an associate professor at Kyoto University in 1996 and as a full professor in 1998. In 2003, he moved to the RIKEN Center for Biological Biology as the head of the organogenesis and neurogenesis group.
Sasai was known for inventing ways to convert stem cells into organ-like structures. Sasai became the first stem cell researcher to grow an optic cup from human cells in 2012.
Sasai was a co-author on two Nature papers in 2014 but a few months later, the stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency or "STAP" cells was described.
Haruko Obokata, Sasai's co-author, had committed scientific misconduct in the STAP cell experiments, according to a subsequent inquiry by Riken, and Sasai was chastised for poor supervision of Obokata. Sasai's brother was "overwhelmed with grief," and after a month of hospitalization, a man was discovered dead from a suspected suicide by hanging on August 5, 2014.