Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D.

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor, Department of Immunobiology and in Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine and in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Akiko Iwasaki’s research focuses on the mechanisms of immune defense against viruses at the mucosal surfaces. Her laboratory is interested in how innate recognition of viral infections leads to the generation of adaptive immunity and how adaptive immunity mediates protection against subsequent viral challenge.