Shin'ya Yamanaka (山中伸弥) is a Japanese physician, professor at Kyoto University, specializing in the fields of study of developmental biology and induced pluripotent stem cells.

Opto Engineering® provided the telecentric optics used for the experiments on the programming of adult somatic cells into stem cells, which allowed the professor to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2012. More info here (in Japanese) and here.