Dr. Anh Tran received her PhD in molecular virology at the University of Manitoba. She started her post-doctoral fellow in Toronto at the Hospital for Sick Children before completing her fellowship at the University of Toronto where she developed her interest in viral immunity and small animal models of infection. Dr. Tran joined the NRC in 2019 with a research focus on vaccine development and host immunity to viruses. She is the Lead Scientist for the NRC’s high biocontainment level-3 (CL-3) facility. She has served on the NRC Director General's Research Excellence Advisory Committee, as an alternate Chair to Sussex COSH, and as interim Chair on the Ottawa Biosafety Committee. She is an Editorial Board member for Scientific Reports, and reviewer for several journals and grants selection committees.
Dr. Tran was awarded the NRC's Rising Star Award, President's Award, HHT Excellence Teams Award, and NRC Instant Award for Research Excellence in 2022 and 2024.