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Katherine Luzuriaga, M.D., received her S.B. and S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine. 

She completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at Tufts-New England Medical Center and a clinical and research fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), where she is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Medicine, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, and Associate Provost of Global Health.

Dr. Luzuriaga has over 20 years experience in patient-oriented research focused on mother-to-child transmission of HIV, pediatric HIV pathogenesis and treatment, and the immunopathogenesis of persistent viral infections in children. She is a recipient of an Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award and an NIH Mid-Career Investigator Award.

Dr. Luzuriaga has held several leadership positions within the US National Institutes of Health-sponsored Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials and IMPAACT Groups. She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Perinatal Transmission of HIV, and as a member of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Etiology and Pathogenesis Planning Committee. 

Dr. Luzuriaga is a past member of the NIH AIDS Immunology Study Section (AARR-2) and has participated on many NIH peer review panels.  She is highly committed to training the next generation of scientists and has also served on several review panels that provide awards to junior scientists, including the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Selection Committee of the Elizabeth Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the March of Dimes, the Charles H. Hood Foundation Research Grant Advisory Committee, and the Fellowship Committee of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (USA).