Vanessa Meier-Stephenson

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Contact

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
meierste@ualberta.ca
Address
1-124P Clinical Sciences Building
11304 83 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2G3

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

viral hepatitis hepatitis B virus biophysics biochemistry virology computational chemistry viral-host protein interactions viral pathogenesis drug development


About

I am an infectious diseases physician recently joined the team here at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. My research interests lie in chronic viral hepatitis and the study of viral-host pathogenesis for this and other viruses. I use a combination of computational, biophysical and molecular virology methods to explore various viral DNA/RNA and host protein interactions to gain further understanding in viral pathogenesis and evaluate unique approaches to developing therapeutics.

Featured Publications

Biophysical study of Specificity protein 1 (Sp1) with Hepatitis B virus (HBV) pre-core promoter G4-quadruplex: a key transcriptional complex

4th Canadian Society for Virology Symposium. 2022 June;


Targeting Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication at its root with G-quadruplex (GQ) binders

4th Canadian Society for Virology Symposium. 2022 June;


Meier-Stephenson V.

Biophysical Reviews. 2022 April; 14 (3):635-654 10.1007/s12551-022-00952-8


Targeting the hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA

International Hepatitis B Virus Conference. 2021 September;