Angela Rasmussen
virologist and researcher
Angela Lynn Rasmussen is an American virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Education and early career
During graduate school, Rasmussen worked in the laboratory of Vincent Racaniello, where she developed a mouse model of rhinovirus infection to better understand the pathogenesis of illnesses caused by the virus, such as the common cold. In 2008, she appeared as a guest on Racaniello's podcast This Week in Virology.
In 2014, Rasmussen was a contestant on Jeopardy!, an American trivia game show.
Research
Rasmussen joined the faculty at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she worked as an associate research scientist. There, she studied how hosts respond to infectious diseases such as SARS and Ebola.
Ebolavirus research
During her tenure at University of Washington, she studied the response of mice to ebolavirus infection. The traditional mouse model, derived from a uniform genetic background, dies before the classical symptoms of the disease appear after infection, making it difficult to study the virus's pathogenesis. In order to study the pathogenenesis, Rasmussen and her team took advantage of a genetically diverse collection of mice, known as the Collaborative Cross, as the subjects of the research. When infecting this collection of mice with ebolavirus, they observed a wide range of disease outcomes, ranging from complete resistance to the virus to severe hemorrhagic fever.
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