Malika Aid-Boudries, Ph.D.

Malika Aid-Boudries, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Assistant ProfessorBarouch Laboratory
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, BIDMC
maid@bidmc.harvard.eduDr. Aid-Boudries is an Assistant professor of Medicine at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research (CVVR). She received her Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from the Center for Immunology and Cancer at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At CVVR, her research focuses on developing computational pipelines and machine learning-based approaches (ML/AI) to investigate OMICS signatures associated with disease pathogenesis, baseline and post-vaccination predictor biomarkers of vaccines immunogenicity, and durability. Dr. Boudries is also exploring disease pathogenesis through epigenetics profiling, with a keen interest in decoding the epigenetics determinant of HIV integration and the latent HIV reservoir maintenance and persistence.
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science engineering, 1995. UMMTO, Algeria
M.Sc., Biology, 2007. Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Ph.D., Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2014. Institute for Research in Immunology and cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Training
02/2014 – 12/2014 Research Fellow, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
2015 – 2018 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, BIDMC, Boston, MA
2019 – 2022, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, BIDMC, Boston, MA
Appointments
2014-2015, Research Associate, CASE Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
2016-2019, Staff Scientist, Harvard Medical School, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, BIDMC, Boston, MA
2019- 2022, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, BIDMC, Boston, MA
Honors
2010 – 2011, Biochemistry Department Excellence Scholarship, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2007 – 2010, Excellence Scholarship for Ph.D. student, University of Montreal, Canada
2006 – 2007, Excellence Scholarship for Master’s Student, University of Montreal, Canada
2023-2025, Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership (DICP) Faculty Fellowship Award