Craig B. Wilen, MD, PhD

Craig B. Wilen, MD, PhD, is a laboratory medicine physician who focuses on diseases caused by viruses, including coronaviruses and noroviruses. He investigates how these viruses infect cells and how the immune system responds, striving to develop improved strategies for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

As an associate professor of laboratory medicine and immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Wilen conducts research on viral immunity and pathogenesis. His research aims to identify key mechanisms that can lead to better risk assessment and therapeutic approaches for viral infections. He discovered a receptor that noroviruses use to infect certain intestinal cells, helping researchers better understand how these infections can be controlled.

Dr. Wilen has been honored with the Odyssey Award from the Smith Family Foundation, the DARPA Young Faculty Award and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He received his medical training from the University of Pennsylvania and completed residency in clinical pathology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.