Oct-2021
McMaster’s Karen Mossman (VPR Research) named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada
For the two decades she’s been at McMaster, Karen Mossman has forged an international reputation as one of Canada’s finest virologists and emerged as an institutional leader. She was the first woman to hold the position of Chair in the 50-year history of the Department of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences and was the university’s unanimous choice to take on the Vice-President, Research role in July of 2020.
Her name has now been added to the list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, joining a cadre of the country’s highest achieving female leaders in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.
Mossman has established an internationally recognized research program in virology, with a focus on how viruses infect humans and evade our immune system. Her team — in collaboration with clinical colleagues in Toronto — was among the first in Canada to purify the SARS-CoV-2 virus from an infected patient.
This discovery enabled many studies to understand how infection occurs, why our immune response varies among individuals, and how we can use this information to develop next-generation vaccines and antiviral therapies.
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