Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology

Aldrovandi Ariel

Biography

Physician-scientist Grace M. Aldrovandi, MD., CM, is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and a professor of Pediatrics and a professor of Pathology, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Aldrovandi is a Board certified Los Angeles-based pediatric infectious diseases specialist, and has conducted her research at The Saban Research Institute of CHLA since 2003. In 2014, she was awarded $17 million by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The goal of this grant is to provide scientific leadership and infrastructure for laboratory testing as part of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network. Dr. Aldrovandi’s research interests include pediatric HIV, the effects of breast milk on child health and infections in immunocompromised children. She has published more than 100 peer review publications and 8 book chapters. She has been a member of multiple National Institutes of Health study sections and lectured throughout the world. She also was invited by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a member of the AIDS Immunology and Pathogenesis Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review. The four-year appointment began July 1, 2008 and concluded on June 30, 2012. Dr. Aldrovandi received two bachelor’s degrees (1979, 1981) and her medical degree (1985) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She completed an internship (1986-1987) and residency (1987-1989) at McGill, as well as a research fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles (1994-1996).

Research Interest

Pediatric AIDS clinical trials Diagnosis and management of infectious disease patients