• Portrait of Catherine Card.
  • Adjunct professor

    Max Rady College of Medicine
    Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
    Room, 543-745 Bannatyne Avenue
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0J9

    204-789-6502
    catherine.card@umanitoba.ca

Cross appointments

Does not hold any cross appointments.

Research achievements

Research summary

Dr. Card’s research interests include understanding the immunological mechanisms controlling viral susceptibility and disease progression, with emphasis on HIV.

In particular, her research addresses questions about how inflammation affects interactions between immune cells and tissue stromal cells, and the downstream effects of those interactions on susceptibility to HIV acquisition.

Dr. Card also studies the development of inflammatory and immune-mediated disease in people living with HIV.

Recently, Dr. Card’s research interests have grown to include immune responses to vaccination in diverse populations, with a focus on COVID-19 vaccines.

Research affiliations  

Research scientist, JC Wilt Infectious Disease Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • HIV  
  • Inflammatory and immune mediated disease  
  • Viral susceptibility and disease progression  

Biography

Dr. Card is a research scientist in the Division of Sexually-transmitted and Blood-borne Infections (STBBI) at the National Microbiology Laboratory Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba.

After completing her PhD in HIV immunology at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Card pursued a post-doctoral fellowship studying interactions between immune and tissue stromal cells in the context of cancer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Card's current interests are focused on improving HIV diagnostic algorithms for complex cases and understanding how inflammatory exposures impact heterogeneity in HIV acquisition and progression.

Education

Post-doctoral fellow, University of Manitoba (2019)

Post-doctoral fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2015)

PhD, Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba (2012)

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Microbiology, University of Manitoba (2005)

Awards

Lymphatic Education and Research Network Award (2014)

Health Sciences Centre Foundation Award for Research in Infection and Immunity (2012)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Research Award for Research in HIV/AIDS (2010)

Contact us

Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Max Rady College of Medicine
Room 543 - 745 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 Canada

204-789-3299
204-789-3926