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Akiko Iwasaki
A Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Iwasaki studies immune defence against viruses at mucosal surfaces. Her lab leads major collaborative long COVID investigations with Mount Sinai and clinical partners, shaping how post-viral disease is defined, measured and treated, and informing vaccine strategies that target the nasal mucosa where infections begin.
Azita Emami
Emami leads one of the world's top nursing schools and was a US leader of the global Nursing Now campaign with the WHO and International Council of Nurses. Her research on music-based caregiving interventions for people with dementia, run with Swedish collaborators, offers low-cost ways to reduce stress for patients and family caregivers.
Nicholas Turk-Browne
Turk-Browne directs Yale's Wu Tsai Institute, a university-wide effort connecting psychology, neuroscience and data science to understand human cognition. His team pioneered awake infant fMRI, revealing how vision and learning organise in the earliest months of life, methods now adopted by developmental labs worldwide and informing early assessments of brain development.