Rana Chakraborty, MD, DPhil, FIDSA, is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and researcher with unique expertise in placental and fetal immunology. He studies the impact of maternal infection on exposed infants and characterizes and publishes about infection of trophoblasts, cord blood and placental macrophages with HIV, cytomegalovirus, Toxoplasma gondii, the Zika virus and SARS-CoV-2.
Dr. Chakraborty has also served as a leader in perinatal, pediatric and adolescent infectious diseases clinical trials, in medical education and in basic science research. His work has been supported by intramural funding and by extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health as a principal investigator in clinical and laboratory research, initially at the University of Oxford in England and currently at the Mayo Clinic.