Masayuki Yamato (大和 雅之, Yamato Masayuki) is a professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University.
[citation needed] He instructed Haruko Obokata there and wrote a paper on STAP cell with her, Charles Vacanti and Yoshiki Sasai.
[1] He was interested in tacit knowing, a concept which Michael Polanyi and Shinichiro Kurimoto also developed.
[3] He graduated from Tokyo University.
[3] 'Gossipy Cells'(Oshaberina Saibou tachi おしゃべりな細胞たち ) published by Kodansha[4]