Yoshihiro Kawaoka

|birth_place = Kobe, Japan |occupation = Virologist, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Tokyo |alma_mater = Hokkaido University |awards = Robert Koch Prize (2006)
Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (2015)
Japan Academy Prize (2016)
Keio Medical Science Prize (2022) |known = Studies of influenza and Ebola viruses }} is a virologist specializing in the study of the influenza and Ebola viruses. He holds a professorship in virology in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Following the West African Ebola virus epidemic of 2014, Kawaoka began development of an Ebola vaccine working in close coordination with Alhaji N'jai a toxicologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his non-profit organization Project 1808, Inc. Provided by Wikipedia