Katherine Luzuriaga
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
- Tufts University School of Medicine (MD)
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| Occupation | Medical doctor |
| Employer | University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| Known for | HIV, AIDS research |
Katherine Luzuriaga is an American physician and pediatric immunologist who primarily works on HIV/AIDS at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). She is currently a vice provost at UMMS and the director of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
Luzuriaga was born in Bacolod and grew up in the Philippines; she was the second of six children.[1] She majored in biochemistry and earned both her BSc and her MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her MD from Tufts before completing a pediatrics residency at Tufts Floating Children’s Hospital and fellowship training in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[2] She cites both her parents in her decision to become a medical doctor: her father was an engineer who taught her a love of science and math and her mother was a nurse.[1]
