Dr. Shawn Babiuk is a research scientist and head of the vesicular disease unit for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan in 1997 and a Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Saskatchewan in 2003. He completed postdoctoral training in Saskatoon on genomics with Pyxis Genomics Canada and on vaccine development at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan. In 2006, he became an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Manitoba. His research is focused on foreign animal diseases. His research program consists of the development of diagnostics and vaccines for several foreign animal diseases, focusing on vesicular diseases, including foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis, swine vesicular disease, Senecavirus A, and capripoxviruses.