Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology;Associate Director of Cross School Programs for the MESH Academy

 

Paula Cannon, PhD, is the Distinguished Professor of Microbiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, where she leads a research team that studies viruses, stem cells and gene therapy. She obtained her PhD from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, and received postdoctoral training as an HIV scientist at both Oxford and Harvard universities. Although HIV remains the main focus of her work, she also studies highly pathogenic hemorrhagic fever viruses, including Ebola and Lassa fever viruses. Cannon has a long-standing interest in the development of gene therapy as a clinical approach to treating HIV infection.

 

Recently Paula has appeared as an expert on TV shows and in newspaper articles focused on the Coronavirus crisis.

 

In this excerpt she discusses the broader implications of the virus

 

3:57COVID-19 And Social Isolation: An Immunology Expert Weighs InMSN.com3 weeks ago

 

Paula lives in Pasadena, California with her husband.