"Yale Professors Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki Named on Time's 2024 Most Influential List"

Two Yale professors, astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan and immunologist Akiko Iwasaki, have been named to Time Magazine's 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Their groundbreaking work in astrophysics and immunology has earned them this prestigious recognition, marking the first time in over a decade that a sitting member of the Yale faculty has been included in the list. Natarajan's theories on the universe and Iwasaki's research on the human body's response to viral infections have made significant impacts in their respective fields.