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Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Dermatology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteBiography
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Canada and her postdoctoral training from the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of immune defense against viruses at the mucosal surfaces, and the development of mucosal vaccine strategies. She is the co-Lead Investigator of the Yale COVID-19 Recovery Study, which aims to determine the changes in the immune response of people with long COVID after vaccination. Dr. Iwasaki also leads multiple other studies to interrogate the pathobiology of long COVID, both in patients, and through developing animal models of long COVID. Dr. Iwasaki was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2021, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
Appointments
Immunobiology
ProfessorPrimaryDermatology
ProfessorSecondaryEpidemiology of Microbial Diseases
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Immunology
- Center for Infection and Immunity
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- CPIRT - Center for Pulmonary Injury, Inflammation, Repair and Therapeutics
- Dean's Workshops
- Dermatology
- Diabetes Research Center
- Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
- Human and Translational Immunology Program
- Immunobiology
- Immunology
- Iwasaki Lab
- K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (IOTP)
- Microbiology
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Molecular Virology
- Rheumatic Diseases Research Core
- Virology Laboratories
- WHRY Pilot Project Program Investigators
- Women's Health Research at Yale
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Center for Immuno-Oncology
- Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age)
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
- Yale WRHR Advisory Committee
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative
Education & Training
- PhD
- University of Toronto (1998)
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Immunobiology
PO Box 208011, 300 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06520
United States
Locations
The Anlyan Center
Academic Office
The Anlyan Center
Lab