King-Wai Yau

Dr. King-Wai Yau received an A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University in 1975. He completed his postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Denis Baylor, and at Cambridge University with Nobel Laureate, Sir Alan Hodgkin (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1963). He was on the faculty at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston before moving to The Johns Hopkins University in 1986, where he is currently Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He has received the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (United Kingdom), the Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Alcon Award in Vision Research, and the Magnes Prize from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.