Rate My Professor Wayne Yokoyama

Yokoyama earned his MD from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1978. He completed an internal medicine residency (1978-1981), clinical fellowship in rheumatology (1981-1982), and research fellowship in rheumatology (1982-1985) at the University of Iowa, followed by a research fellowship in immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1985-1989). Recruited to Washington University in 1995 from Mount Sinai, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, he became a two-time HHMI Investigator. Notable awards include the Novartis Award for Basic Immunology in 2001, the Goldstein Award in 2015, and induction into the Academy of Educators. Key publications encompass 'Eomesodermin defines uterine NK cells crucial for pregnancy success in mice' (2025, Journal of Immunology), 'Shared pathway of WDFY4-dependent cross-presentation of immune complexes by cDC1 and cDC2' (2025, Journal of Experimental Medicine), 'Cis-regulatory evolution of the recently expanded Ly49 gene family' (2024, Nature Communications), 'NK Cells in Antiviral Defense' (2025, Encyclopedia of Immunobiology), and 'Innate Lymphoid Cells and Natural Killer Cells' (2024, Firestein & Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology). Yokoyama has also received Distinguished Service Teaching Awards and contributed to educational excellence through the MSTP.