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Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD
Associate Division Chief for Basic/Translational Research, Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Director, Emory + Children’s Center for Childhood Infections & Vaccines (CCIV)
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Biography
Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD, has several appointments at the Emory University School of Medicine. Her primary academic appointments are Associate Division Chief for Basic/Translational Research, Division of Infectious Diseases; and Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is also Faculty in the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Graduate Training Program, Emory-Laney Graduate School; and an Affiliate Scientist in the Division of Microbiology and Immunology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Chahroudi maintains administrative roles of Associate Director for Clinical Affairs, MD/PhD Program and Director, Emory + Children’s Center for Infections & Vaccines (CCIV).
As a clinician, Dr. Chahroudi maintains appointments as a Consulting Physician, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; Attending Physician, Ponce Family and Youth Clinic, Infectious Diseases Program, Grady Health System; and Medical Director, Ponce Family and Youth Clinic, Infectious Diseases Program, Grady Health System.
Dr. Chahroudi received her MD and PhD from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her general pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She returned to Emory for subspecialty fellowship training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Chahroudi’s research focuses on finding a cure for HIV. Her lab aims to identify cellular and anatomic HIV/SIV reservoirs that represent the key obstacle(s) to an HIV cure, using nonhuman primate models to more completely assess the sources of viral persistence and test novel cure-directed interventions. Her laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Research
HIV pathogenesis
HIV mother-to-child transmission
HIV reservoirs and eradication: nonhuman primate models