GraceAldrovandiMD

Pediatric Infectious Disease • Los Angeles, CA

Professor, Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine

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Office
4650 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone+1 323-669-2509

Fax+1 323-660-2661
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Education & Training

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 1989 - 1990
McGill University Faculty Medicine HospitalPediatrics, 1985 - 1989
McGill University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1985

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2003 - 2025
AL State Medical License Active through 2003
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (FAAP) American Academy of Pediatrics

Clinical Trials

A Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of Treating Advanced AIDS Patients Between Ages 4 and 22 With 7 Drugs, Some at Higher Than Usual Doses
Completed
Phase 1
Metabolic Abnormalities in HIV Infected and Uninfected Young Women Start of enrollment: 2003 Jul 01
Completed
A Study of Physical and Metabolic Abnormalities in HIV Infected and Uninfected Children and Youth Start of enrollment: 2003 Oct 01
Completed
Metabolic Abnormalities - HIV Infected and Uninfected Males Start of enrollment: 2006 Mar 01
Completed
Infant Immunity Comparison of Breastfed and Bottlefed Infants Start of enrollment: 2015 Jan 01
Completed
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for the Treatment of Severe Acute Gut Graft-Versus-Host Disease Start of enrollment: 2023 Sep 01
Withdrawn
Phase 1
Role of Children in Transmission of COVID-19 to Immunocompromised Patients Start of enrollment: 2020 May 27
Terminated
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

NK Cell-Monocyte Cross-talk Underlies NK Cell Activation in Severe COVID-19.
Madeline J Lee, Izumi de Los Rios Kobara, Trisha R Barnard, Xariana Vales Torres, Kathie G Ferbas, Anne W Rimoin, Aaron J Wilk, Catherine A Blish, Nicole H Tobin, Otto...> ;Journal of Immunology. 2024 Apr 5
Breastfeeding in the United States Among Women With HIV: Con Viewpoint.
Nachman, S., Aldrovandi, G.> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024 Jan 8
Metabolomic profiling of preterm birth in pregnant women living with HIV.
Nicole H Tobin, Aisling Murphy, Fan Li, Sean S Brummel, Mary Glenn Fowler, James A Mcintyre, Judith S Currier, Tsungai Chipato, Patricia M Flynn, Luis A Gadama, Friday...> ;Metabolomics. 2023 Oct 25
1 citations
Changes in the Vaginal Microbiome During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in South African Women: a Longitudinal Study.
Katherine T Li, Fan Li, Heather Jaspan, Dorothy Nyemba, Landon Myer, Grace Aldrovandi, Dvora Joseph-Davey> ;Reproductive Sciences. 2024 Jan 1
Feasibility Study of a Powder-Based Supplement Intervention for a future Synbiotic Trial in Breastfed Children from South Africa.
Rupak Shivakoti, Barbara Laughton, Mehr Shafiq, Elisma Schoeman, Richard H Glashoff, Shaun Barnabas, Samantha Fry, Cheng-Shiun Leu, Shuang Wang, Lars Bode, Grace Aldro...> ;Research Square. 2023 May 15
Microbiota in the oral cavity of school-age children with HIV who started antiretroviral therapy at young ages in South Africa.
Louise Kuhn, Tian Wang, Fan Li, Renate Strehlau, Nicole H Tobin, Avy Violari, Sarah Brooker, Faeezah Patel, Afaaf Liberty, Stephanie Shiau, Stephen M Arpadi, Sunil Wad...> ;AIDS. 2023 Aug 1
1 citations
Longitudinal relationship between the gut microbiota variation and diversity and gut graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic cell...
Ashley N Gray, Nicole H Tobin, Theodore B Moore, Fan Li, Grace M Aldrovandi> ;International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2023 May 1
Changes in the vaginal microbiome during pregnancy and the postpartum period in South African women: a longitudinal study.
Katherine Li, Fan Li, Heather Jaspan, Dorothy Nyemba, Landon Myer, Grace Aldrovandi, Dvora Joseph-Davey> ;Research Square. 2023 Apr 19
2 citations
Longitudinal Evaluation of Antibody Persistence in Mother-Infant Dyads After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in Pregnancy.
Mary C Cambou, Christine M Liu, Thalia Mok, Viviana Fajardo-Martinez, Sophia G Paiola, Francisco J Ibarrondo, Tara Kerin, Trevon Fuller, Nicole H Tobin, Gustavo Garcia...> ;The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023 Jan 11
Biomarkers detected in cord blood predict vaccine responses in young infants.
Carolyn H Baloh, Guglielmo M Venturi, Bernard M Fischer, Liane S Sadder, Julie J Kim-Chang, Cliburn Chan, Kristina De Paris, Li Yin, Grace M Aldrovandi, Maureen M Good...> ;Frontiers in Immunology. 2023 Jan 1
Vascular and Non-HLA autoantibody profiles in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Brian Lichtenstein, Ying Zheng, David Gjertson, Kathie G Ferbas, Anne W Rimoin, Otto O Yang, Grace M Aldrovandi, Joanna M Schaenman, Elaine F Reed, Jennifer A Fulcher> ;Frontiers in Immunology. 2023 Jan 1
Evaluating the use of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis among pregnant and postpartum adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa.
Nehaa Khadka, Pamina M Gorbach, Dorothy C Nyemba, Rufaro Mvududu, Nyiko Mashele, Marjan Javanbakht, Roch A Nianogo, Grace M Aldrovandi, Linda-Gail Bekker, Thomas J Coa...> ;Frontiers in Reproductive Health. 2023 Jan 1
4 citations
Persistent memory despite rapid contraction of circulating T Cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination.
Ellie Taus, Christian Hofmann, F Javier Ibarrondo, Laura S Gong, Mary Ann Hausner, Jennifer A Fulcher, Paul Krogstad, Scott G Kitchen, Kathie G Ferbas, Nicole H Tobin,...> ;Frontiers in Immunology. 2023 Jan 1
45 citations
Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis.
Emily R Smith, Erin Oakley, Gargi Wable Grandner, Kacey Ferguson, Fouzia Farooq, Yalda Afshar, Mia Ahlberg, Homa Ahmadzia, Victor Akelo, Grace Aldrovandi, Beth A Tippe...> ;BMJ Global Health. 2023 Jan 1
2 citations
Mitigating Infectious morbidity and Growth deficits in HIV-exposed uninfected infanTs with human Milk Oligosaccharide (MIGH-T MO): a randomised trial protocol.
Rupak Shivakoti, Amy L Slogrove, Barbara Laughton, Mehr Shafiq, Elisma Schoeman, Richard H Glashoff, Cheng-Shiun Leu, Shuang Wang, Lars Bode, Grace Aldrovandi, Louise ...> ;BMJ Open. 2022 Dec 30
4 citations
Developing tuberculosis vaccines for people with HIV: consensus statements from an international expert panel.
Gupta, A., Maurine D Miner, Mark Hatherill, Vidya Mave, Glenda E Gray, Sharon Nachman, Sarah W Read, Richard G White, Anneke Hesseling, Frank Cobelens, Sheral Patel, M...> ;The Lancet. HIV. 2022 Nov 1
30 citations
No infectious SARS-CoV-2 in breast milk from a cohort of 110 lactating women.
Paul Krogstad, Deisy Contreras, Hwee Ng, Nicole Tobin, Christina D Chambers, Kerri Bertrand, Lars Bode, Grace M Aldrovandi> ;Pediatric Research. 2022 Oct 1
8 citations
Gut dysbiosis and inflammatory blood markers precede HIV with limited changes after early seroconversion.
Jennifer A Fulcher, Fan Li, Nicole H Tobin, Sara Zabih, Julie Elliott, Jesse L Clark, Richard D'Aquila, Brian Mustanski, Michele D Kipke, Steven Shoptaw, Pamina M Gorb...> ;Ebiomedicine. 2022 Oct 1
16 citations
Hybrid Immunity Shifts the Fc-Effector Quality of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine-Induced Immunity.
Kathryn A Bowman, Daniel Stein, Sally Shin, Kathie G Ferbas, Nicole H Tobin, Colin Mann, Stephanie Fischinger, Erica Ollmann Saphire, Douglas Lauffenburger, Anne W Rim...> ;Mbio. 2022 Oct 26
30 citations
Clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes among women with COVID-19 in the pregnancy and postpartum period: a sequential, prospective meta-analysis.
Emily R Smith, Erin Oakley, Gargi Wable Grandner, Gordon Rukundo, Fouzia Farooq, Kacey Ferguson, Sasha Baumann, Kristina Maria Adams Waldorf, Yalda Afshar, Mia Ahlberg...> ;American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2023 Feb 1
4 citations
Molecular alterations in human milk in simulated maternal nasal mucosal infection with live attenuated influenza vaccination.
Pia S Pannaraj, André Guilherme da Costa-Martins, Chiara Cerini, Fan Li, Sook-San Wong, Youvika Singh, Alysson H Urbanski, Patrícia Gonzalez-Dias, Juliana Yang, Richar...> ;Mucosal Immunology. 2022 May 1
A Summary of the Sixth International Workshop on Microbiome in HIV Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Treatment.
Scott Sherrill-Mix, Michelle Yang, Grace M Aldrovandi, Jason M Brenchley, Frederic D Bushman, Ronald G Collman, Satya Dandekar, Nichole R Klatt, Laurel A Lagenaur, Ala...> ;AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 2022 Mar 1
18 citations
Dominant CD8T Cell Nucleocapsid Targeting in SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Broad Spike Targeting From Vaccination.
Ellie Taus, Christian Hofmann, Francisco Javier Ibarrondo, Mary Ann Hausner, Jennifer A Fulcher, Paul Krogstad, Kathie G Ferbas, Nicole H Tobin, Anne W Rimoin, Grace M...> ;Frontiers in Immunology. 2022 Jan 1
4 citations
Protocol for a sequential, prospective meta-analysis to describe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the pregnancy and postpartum periods.
Emily R Smith, Erin Oakley, Siran He, Rebecca Zavala, Kacey Ferguson, Lior Miller, Gargi Wable Grandner, Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Yalda Afshar, Homa Ahmadzia, ...> ;Plos One. 2022 Jan 1
15 citations
Humoral responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines: Role of past infection.
Ashley Gray, Rachel Martin-Blais, Nicole H. Tobin, Yan Wang, Sarah L Brooker, Fan Li, Adva Gadoth, Julie Elliott, Emmanuelle Faure-Kumar, Megan Halbrook, Christian Hof...> ;Plos One. 2021 Nov 8
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Journal Articles

Effects of Substance Use and Sex Practices on the Intestinal Microbiome During HIV-1 Infection
Steven Shoptaw, Jennifer A Fulcher, Nicole H Tobin, Grace M Aldrovandi, The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Press Mentions

Are More Moms Waiting to Wean, Thanks to Covid?February 1st, 2022
‘Don’t Panic.’ How Parents with Kids Too Young to Vaccinate Can Navigate OmicronJanuary 10th, 2022
UCLA Awarded $25 Million to Advance HIV Research for Women and ChildrenNovember 30th, 2020
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