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Rando Allikmets PAN Shilie YANG Zhihua Xin Zhang Mohamed Abou Shousha Chrisfouad R. Alabiad Thomas Albini Eduardo Alfonso Jane Koretz Guillermo Amescua Richard M. Awdeh James Banta Audina M. Berrocal Byoung Seung Ham Hilda Capo Manjusha Rajagopala Kara M. Cavuoto Ta Chen P. Chang Victoria Chang Esen K Akpek View MoreDr. Yawata is a physician-scientist with a research focus on immunology of the human eye. She started the ocular immunology lab in the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences Infection and Immunity Program in 2010. She is board-certified in ophthalmology in Japan and received her Ph.D. degree on her studies in uveitis. She investigated human natural killer cell immunology in the Department of Structural Biology in Stanford University before coming to Singapore. Dr. Yawata received a Career Transition Award in 2012 and currently has joint appointments in Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.
Mechanisms of inflammation caused by pathogens, injury, and autoimmunity in the eye, Human ocular mucosal immunity, Group D human adenoviruses, NK cell immunity