Ya-Chi Ho, MD, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Yale Cancer Center and Cancer Immunology Research Program.
Dr. Ho received her MD from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 2002 and completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious disease in 2007. She received her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2013.
In 2017, Dr. Ho joined the faculty at Yale School of Medicine, where the Ho lab aims to find a cure for HIV infections by using single-genome and single-cell approaches on clinical samples to understand HIV-1 persistence and HIV-1-induced immune dysfunction. Her research examines how HIV persists in cells, particularly CD4 T lymphocytes, and whether epigenetic silencing can permanently and irreversibly silence HIV expression.
To read more about Dr. Ho's contributions to science, please also view her full list of publications.