Yorgo E. Modis (born 1974) is Professor in Virology and Immunology, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

His group employs a diverse set of complementary biophysical approaches including cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), X-ray crystallography, solution biophysics, fluorescence microscopy and cell biological approaches to understand the cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing in molecular-level detail.

[2][3][4][5] Among them was the subject of viral entry into host cells by the dengue virus, which became a cover story on Nature (journal).

In May 2020 he helped Roger Highfield to set up a blog at the Science Museum Group with the theme Coronavirus: How the Virus Works.

In July 2020 he contributed graphics of the COVID-19 virus to the BBC News article by John Sudworth with title Wuhan: City of silence — Looking for answers in the place where coronavirus started.