Commun Biol. 2021 Aug 10;4(1):951. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02456-9.
Professor Akiko Iwasaki’s research focuses on the mechanisms of immune defense against viruses at mucosal surfaces, which are a major site of entry for infectious agents. Professor Iwasaki received her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Toronto and completed her postdoctoral training with the National Institutes of Health before joining Yale’s faculty in 2000. She has received many awards and honors and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2014. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Professor Iwasaki is also well known for her Twitter advocacy of women and underrepresented minorities in the science and medicine fields. In addition, Professor Iwasaki co-directs the IMPACT (Implementing Medical and Public Health Actions against Coronavirus in Connecticut) team to generate an extensive biorepository for specimens collected from patients and health care workers, as well as implementing viral testing in both groups.
岩崎明子教授的研究重点是黏膜表面防御病毒的免疫机制，黏膜表面是感染因子的主要进入部位。岩崎明子教授在多伦多大学获得免疫学博士学位，在加入耶鲁大学教职员工之前，在美国国立卫生研究院完成了博士后培训。她获得了许多奖项和荣誉，并自 2014 年以来一直担任霍华德休斯医学研究所研究员。她于 2018 年当选为美国国家科学院院士，2019 年当选为美国国家医学院院士，2021 年当选为美国艺术与科学院院士。岩崎明子教授还因在推特上倡导科学和医学领域的女性和少数族裔而广为人知。此外，岩崎明子教授还共同指导了 IMPACT（在康涅狄格州实施医疗和公共卫生行动以对抗冠状病毒）团队，为从患者和医护人员收集的标本建立了广泛的生物库，并对这两个群体进行病毒检测。
