Lorne Babiuk is Director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), Canada Research Chair in Vaccinology and Biotechnology, and Professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a world leader in vaccinology as applied to both animals and humans. Throughout his career, he has combined molecular biology, immunology and wholeanimal studies to acquire a better understanding of disease pathogenesis and control. He has fully sequenced and characterized the bovine and porcine adenovirus genomes and has developed novel animal models that simulate the natural-disease state for the testing of vaccines and immune modulators. He holds more than 20 patents, has published more than 450 peer-reviewed articles, and is frequently called upon to help set science policy in Canada.
