Masayuki Yamato (大和 雅之, Yamato Masayuki) is a Japanese life scientist and a professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University. He specializes in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and cell biology, and known for research on cell sheets engineering. He instructed Haruko Obokata there and wrote a paper on STAP cell with her, Charles Vacanti and Yoshiki Sasai. He was interested in tacit knowing, a concept which Michael Polanyi and Shinichiro Kurimoto also developed.
Source: “Masayuki Yamato”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt
