Dr. Malika Aid-Boudries is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Principal Investigator of the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics and Epigenetics (BCGE) Laboratory at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research. With a background in computer science engineering and a Ph.D. in Computational Biology, she bridges machine learning and translational medicine.
Her research focuses on the virus–host interface, the identification of molecular correlates of vaccine-induced protection, and the epigenetic mechanisms underlying HIV latency and persistence. Her laboratory leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning frameworks to rationally design and optimize next-generation vaccines, integrating multi-omics data, viral sequence diversity, and host immune profiling to identify predictive correlates of protection and prioritize immunogen candidates. Dr. Aid-Boudries also serves as Co-Director of the Harvard Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Pathway Program initiatives.