Karen Mossman on virology & treatments for cancer

Karen Mossman, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Mossman is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health
Sciences, was recognized by the Women’s Executive Network as a Top 100 – Canada’s Most Powerful Women and received the 2024 Honorary Lifetime Membership Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society. Dr. Mossman has published over 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has contributed as author and editor to numerous books, including virology textbooks.

Dr. Mossman joined McMaster University in 2001, with a research focus on understanding the interactions between viruses and their hosts, both in normal healthy
cells and in cancer cells, with the goal of developing novel therapy approaches for emerging viral infections and cancer. She is currently working with industry to develop Bovine herpesvirus type I as a clinical oncolytic viral cancer immunotherapy. She will tell us about the latest research in her field, and explain how at the start
of the pandemic, her group helped isolate SARS-CoV-2 from Canadian patients which enabled COVID-related studies across the country. 

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

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