Prof. Natalia A. Osna is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience as well as the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center. From  2013 to 2021, she served as a Research Biologist at VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. She holds an M.D. (1978) and Ph.D. in Immunology (1984) obtained at the Latvian Medical Academy (Latvian State University), Center of Hepatology, Riga, Latvia. She is a member of the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases (currently, AASLD Fellow), the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcohol, the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcohol, the American Association of Immunologists, and the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles. Her research interests are liver, HIV, HCV, HBV, alcohol, non-alcoholic liver injury, innate immunity, proteasome, antigen presentation, IFN signaling, and treatment of viral hepatitis