Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D.

Yosuke Tanigawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA. He leads the Tanigawa Lab, which studies why individuals with the same diagnosis differ in disease onset, progression, and treatment response.

The lab develops statistical and computational methods for large-scale genetic, genomic, and phenotypic data. The work spans disease heterogeneity dissection, ancestry-aware polygenic prediction, and therapeutic target discovery from human genetics.

Before joining UCLA in July 2025, Yosuke trained at the MIT Computational Biology Lab with Manolis Kellis. He received his PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, where he worked with Manuel Rivas and Gill Bejerano.

The lab values scientific rigor, open science, and clear communication. We aim to make complex human genetics accessible without losing scientific precision.