Susan Baker (virologist)

Susan C. Baker is an American molecular virologist and professor at Loyola University Chicago, Illinois.

[5] Baker has also worked closely with coronaviruses, the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

These are viruses that affect mostly the upper respiratory and GI tract of humans and are named because of their crown-like appearance under the electron microscope.

Currently her lab is using a mouse model to test the function and inhibition of certain proteases involved in coronavirus infection.

To find the function, structures of papain-like proteases (PLP) and domains of coronaviruses (CoVs) were studied.