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Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD

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Associate Division Chief for Basic/Translational Research, Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Emory + Children’s Center for Childhood Infections & Vaccines (CCIV)
Emory University School of Medicine

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Biography

Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD, holds several appointments at the Emory University School of Medicine. Her main academic positions include serving as Associate Division Chief for Basic/Translational Research within the Division of Infectious Diseases and Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is also a faculty member in the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Graduate Training Program at the Emory-Laney Graduate School, and an Affiliate Scientist in the Division of Microbiology and Immunology at the Emory National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Chahroudi is also the Director of the 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.

Dr. Chahroudi received her MD and PhD degrees from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her general pediatrics residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She then returned to Emory for further specialization in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Her research primarily focuses on finding a cure for HIV, and her lab is dedicated to identifying cellular and anatomic HIV/SIV reservoirs that present the biggest obstacle to an HIV cure. They use nonhuman primate models to assess the sources of viral persistence more comprehensively and to test novel cure-directed interventions.

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Research

HIV pathogenesis
HIV reservoirs and eradication: nonhuman primate models
Pediatric Zika virus infection

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