University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO).Angela Rasmussen — who is still affiliated with Georgetown University and who is formerly of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health — studies how viruses interact with their host.
It’s research she said will help to understand and end the current pandemic and prepare for future health crises.“My goal is to develop new models of SARS-coronavirus-2 specifically using mice to understand how the virus causes disease by modulating a response to infection,” she said, using the formal name of the virus that causes COVID-19.