Biography

Otto O. Yang, MD is an infectious disease physician-scientist who is a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Associate Chief of Infectious Diseases and the Interim Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. He earned medical degree from Brown University, completed his residency training at NYU-Bellevue Hospital, and completed fellowship training at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been on the faculty of UCLA since 1999, where he has had a research program in the roles of T cells in immunity against viruses and causing rejection of transplanted organs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his work was among the first to demonstrate the short-lived immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and to predict that herd immunity would be unachievable.

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