Eric Hoyeon Song, MD, PhD

Eric Hoyeon Song is a physician–scientist in immunology and ophthalmology whose work is inspired by a basic idea: tissue anatomy isn’t just scenery—it actively instructs immunity. By mapping how vascular and lymphatic routes and local microenvironments shape immune access and tone, his lab studies organ-level immune control, such as immune privilege in the brain and eye. His work has appeared in Nature, Cell and other leading journals and introduces new strategies to modulate these pathways therapeutically. Eric holds joint faculty appointments in Immunobiology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at Yale and has received the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, PD Soros Fellowship among other national honors. He trained with Akiko Iwasaki at Yale and previously studied biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins and biochemistry at USC.