Dr. Malika AID Boudries

Malika Aid Boudries, Assistant Professor in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research CVVR

PI, Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, and Epigenetics group

Dr. Aid-Boudries holds an engineering degree in computer science with more than ten years of experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence. She earned her Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Montreal, Canada/Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer under the supervision of Dr. Sylvie Mader. She completed her postdoctoral training in systems and computational biology at VGTI Florida, Case Reserve Western University, and Harvard School of Medicine under the supervision of Drs. Rafik Sekaly and Dan Barouch.  

She was appointed Assistant Professor in Medicine in December 2022 at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research CVVR. She leads the bioinformatics and computational genomics and epigenetics lab (BCGE).

Her research focuses on developing and implementing computational pipelines and methods to investigate the host-virus interaction interface, early host factors impeding HIV integration and persistence, and defining molecular correlates and mechanisms of action of vaccines. She is also exploring disease pathogenesis through epigenetic profiling, with a keen interest in decoding the epigenetic determinants of HIV integration and the maintenance and persistence of the latent HIV reservoir.