Sonja Marie Best

Sonja Marie Best Masanin ilimin ƙwayoyin cuta ne na Australiya-Amurka. Ita ce shugabar sashen rigakafi da pathogenesis a Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Mafi kyawun bincike yana hulɗa tsakanin ƙwayoyin cuta masu ƙwayoyin cutar da kuma maganin rigakafin mai masaukin ta amfani da flavivirus a matsayin abin koyi.

 Ilimi 
Mafi kyawun ya sami BS tare da manyan fannoni a cikin rigakafi da microbiology da kuma na biyu a cikin ilimin dabbobi daga Jami'ar Adelaide .  Ta sami Ph.D. a cikin ilmin sunadarai da ilmin halitta daga Jami'ar Kasa ta Australia inda ta yi nazarin kwayar cutar myxoma. A cikin 1999, ta gudanar da bincikenta na postdoctoral a Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) kan rawar da apoptosis ke takawa a cikin kwafin parvoviruses.

 Ayyuka 
Mafi kyawun ta zauna a RML a matsayin abokin bincike kuma a cikin 2007, ta zama ma'aikaciyar kimiyya. Ta bincika hulɗar kwayar cuta da mai karɓar bakuncin da ke da alaƙa da ƙwayoyin cuta na flavivirus. A wannan lokacin ne ta haɓaka sha'awarta game da rigakafin da aka haifa da kuma hanyoyin Kwayoyin RNA flaviviruses ke amfani da su don kauce wa waɗannan martani masu mahimmanci. A shekara ta 2009, Best ta kafa wani dakin gwaje-gwaje mai zaman kansa a matsayin mai bincike don fadada karatunta kan hulɗar da ke tsakanin ƙwayoyin cuta masu cutarwa da kuma maganin rigakafi. Ita ce shugabar sashen rigakafi da pathogenesis. Mafi kyawun yayi bincike kan hanyoyin da ke haifar da aikin rigakafi na farko bayan kamuwa da ƙwayoyin cuta na RNA da kuma yadda ƙwayoyin ƙwayoyin cutar da ke fitowa ke guje wa waɗannan martani na farko don haifar da cuta. Misalai na kwayar cutar ta sun hada da flaviviruses masu tasowa (kamar Kwayar cutar Zika da encephalitis) da filoviruses (Kwayar cutar Ebola). 

 Kyaututtuka da girmamawa 
A shekara ta 2011, an ba Best lambar yabo ta Shugaban kasa ta Farko ga Masana kimiyya da Injiniyoyi saboda aikinta kan murkushewar flavivirus na amsawar rigakafi."Sonja M. Best, Ph.D. | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases". www.niaid.nih.gov. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 2020-03-29.

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