Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota is the Director of the WNP Institute, The World New Prosperity, and a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Medical Technology, School of Human Sciences, Tokyo University of Technology (2014 to Present). Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota received an M.D. from Okayama University in 1978, earned a Ph.D. in Immunology from the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, in 1983, was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Internal Medicine, Hemato-Oncology Division, University of California in Los Angeles (1983–1985), and then obtained a position in the Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo (1985-2014). Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota is also a member of the Japanese Society for Immunology and the Japanese Society for Virology. Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota’s main research is to understand the mechanism of HIV-1-associated immune deficiency and immunity to virus infections.