# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akiko-iwasaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:35:14.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akiko-iwasaki"
name: "Akiko Iwasaki"
slug: "akiko-iwasaki"
description: "Akiko Iwasaki  is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. She is also a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research interests include innate immunity, autophagy, inflammasomes, sexually transmitted infections, herpes simplex virus, human papillomavirus, respiratory virus infections, influenza infection, T cell immunity, commensal bacteria, COVID-19, and long COVID."
tagline: "Immunobiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akiko_Iwasaki_with_permission_from_Hunni_Media.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.640968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/VirusesImmunity"
    handle:    "VirusesImmunity"
sources:
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    title: "אקיקו איוואסקי"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump