Yohei Yamauchi MD, PhD

Yohei Yamauchi was born in Nagoya, Japan. He spent his childhood in USA and UK and studied medicine at the Nagoya University School of Medicine. During medical school, Yohei began research on herpesvirus-host interactions and developed a keen interest in using cell biology and confocal microscopy to understand the mechanisms of virus infections. After graduating from medical school and performing two years of full-time medical internship at the Nagoya First Red Cross Hospital, he returned to the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine for his Ph.D. in Molecular Virology which he completed in 2008. Yohei then relocated to the Institute of Biochemistry in D-​BIOL of ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher to work on the host genes and mechanisms that drive influenza A virus entry and capsid uncoating informed by high-throughput RNAi screening. In 2015 he became Öberassistent at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Zurich. The following year he became an Associate Professor at the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bristol in the UK. Since July 2022 he is a Full Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in D-​CHAB of ETH Zurich.