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Adjunct Professor
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Accepting graduate students
Research themes
Molecular characterization of hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV)
Research interests
Investigation of HBV and HDV genotypes, drug-resistant and immune-escape mutants
Keywords
Research affiliations
Research groups
Research summary
Dr. Osiowy’s research interests focus on the molecular characterization, epidemiology and evolution of HBV and HDV in Canada, Kenya and in the Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar Arctic.
Biography
Dr. Osiowy is Chief of the Viral Hepatitis and Bloodborne Pathogens Section at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Microbiology from the Univ. of Manitoba and a doctorate in Virology from the Univ. of Calgary. She completed her post-doctoral training in 1998 in Ottawa with the Bureau of Microbiology, Health Canada (Surveillance, Influenza and Viral Exanthemata group).
As a research scientist with the Public Health Agency of Canada, she is responsible for managing serological and molecular diagnostic reference services for hepatitis A, B and D viruses (HAV, HBV and HDV), investigating HAV and HBV outbreaks or suspected transmission events, and providing molecular analyses of hepatitis viruses for clients such as the Canadian Blood Services. She has developed numerous techniques for HBV and HDV biomarker detection for use in clinical studies. Her research interests focus on the molecular characterization, epidemiology and evolution of HBV and HDV in Canada, Kenya and in the Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar Arctic.
Dr. Osiowy holds cross appointments with the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine (Section of Hepatology) at the University of Manitoba. She is a member of the Canadian HBV Network steering committee and an active member of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver, the Circumpolar Viral Hepatitis Working Group (part of International Circumpolar Surveillance) and the Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases working party of the International Society for Blood Transfusion.
Education
ORCID ID/Google Scholar/ResearchGate
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-7220
http://www.scopus.com/inward/authorDetails.url?authorID=6602293103&partnerID=MN8TOARS
http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/755300/overview?referrer=orcid_profile
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- PhD No
Research themes
Molecular characterization of hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV)
Research interests
Investigation of HBV and HDV genotypes, drug-resistant and immune-escape mutants
- Molecular epidemiology of HBV and HDV infection
- Investigation of occult HBV
- HBV molecular evolution
- Investigation of HBV and HDV in indigenous populations of the circumpolar Arctic
- HAV molecular epidemiology in Canada
Keywords
- Hepatitis viruses
- Molecular epidemiology
- Diagnostic
Research affiliations
- Chief, Viral Hepatitis and Bloodborne Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada (National Microbiology Laboratory - Canada.ca)
- Hepatitis B research: Virus-host balance and 20 years of successful vaccination - Science.gc.ca
Research groups
- Canadian HBV Network (https://canadianhbvnetwork.ca/)
- Circumpolar Viral Hepatitis Working Group (http://www.arcticinfdis.com/?page_id=14)
- International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Working Party on Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases; Surveillance, Risk Assessment and Policy subgroup (https://www.isbtweb.org/working-parties/transfusion-transmitted-infectious-diseases)
Research summary
Dr. Osiowy’s research interests focus on the molecular characterization, epidemiology and evolution of HBV and HDV in Canada, Kenya and in the Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar Arctic.
Biography
Dr. Osiowy is Chief of the Viral Hepatitis and Bloodborne Pathogens Section at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Microbiology from the Univ. of Manitoba and a doctorate in Virology from the Univ. of Calgary. She completed her post-doctoral training in 1998 in Ottawa with the Bureau of Microbiology, Health Canada (Surveillance, Influenza and Viral Exanthemata group).
As a research scientist with the Public Health Agency of Canada, she is responsible for managing serological and molecular diagnostic reference services for hepatitis A, B and D viruses (HAV, HBV and HDV), investigating HAV and HBV outbreaks or suspected transmission events, and providing molecular analyses of hepatitis viruses for clients such as the Canadian Blood Services. She has developed numerous techniques for HBV and HDV biomarker detection for use in clinical studies. Her research interests focus on the molecular characterization, epidemiology and evolution of HBV and HDV in Canada, Kenya and in the Indigenous peoples of the circumpolar Arctic.
Dr. Osiowy holds cross appointments with the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine (Section of Hepatology) at the University of Manitoba. She is a member of the Canadian HBV Network steering committee and an active member of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver, the Circumpolar Viral Hepatitis Working Group (part of International Circumpolar Surveillance) and the Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases working party of the International Society for Blood Transfusion.
Education
- PhD, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, 1996
- MSc, Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, 1990
- BSc (Hon), Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, 1987
ORCID ID/Google Scholar/ResearchGate
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-7220
http://www.scopus.com/inward/authorDetails.url?authorID=6602293103&partnerID=MN8TOARS
http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/755300/overview?referrer=orcid_profile