Sho Yano
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Sho Yano is a pediatric neurologist and medical geneticist who investigates genetic conditions that cause seizures and movement disorders. His research laboratory focuses on such neurodevelopmental disorders as alternating hemiplegia of childhood and other disorders of sodium-potassium ATPases. Using a variety of methods, such as genomics, electrophysiology, and biochemistry, his work aims to understand why some genetic changes cause different symptoms and whether this information can lead to new treatments. He is board-certified in pediatrics, child neurology, and medical genetics.
His research has been published in Brain, PNAS Nexus, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Molecular Cell Research, and Pediatric Neurology. He is a medical advisory board member of the AHC Foundation.
Yano earned a BS in biology at Loyola University Chicago. He then received his PhD in molecular genetics and cell biology, as well as an MD, from the University of Chicago, where he completed the Medical Scientist Training Program. He pursued a residency in child neurology at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital, followed by a medical genetics residency at the National Institutes of Health. He also completed a clinical fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institute.