Kunio Shiota (塩田 邦郎, Shiota Kunio, born August 19, 1950) is a Japanese life scientist specializing in biochemistry and epigenetics.
He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1969[1] and from Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki in 1973.
[1] After he completed the graduate school, he joined the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
[1] He received the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science Award for 1996.
[2] In 2013, Kunio Shiota and Koji Hayakawa's research team at University of Tokyo succeeded in the generation of orexin neurons from pluripotent stem cells (mouse embryonic stem cells) for the first time in the world.