Inna Sekirov

Dr. Inna Sekirov is a medical microbiologist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Public Health Laboratory and serves as Program Head for the Tuberculosis/Mycobacteriology Laboratory. Additionally, she holds the position of Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

• Current Role: Medical Microbiologist & Program Head at BCCDC
• Academic Affiliation: Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC

Education:

• BSc in Microbiology and Immunology (UBC)
• MD (UBC)
• PhD (UBC)
• Medical Microbiology Residency (UBC)

Research Interests: Dr. Sekirov's work focuses on the intersection of medical microbiology and public health, with specific emphasis on microbial genomics applications in clinical diagnostics and tuberculosis/mycobacteriology methods. Since 2020, she has expanded her research to include humoral immune responses following SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination, as well as the molecular mechanisms of ACE2 receptor interaction in viral pathogenesis.

Contact: inna.sekirov@bccdc.ca