Professor of Pediatrics
Mayo Clinic
Rana Chakraborty, M.D., D.Phil., 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 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Toxoplasma gondii, the Zika virus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (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 (NIH) as a principal investigator in clinical and laboratory research, initially at the University of Oxford in England and currently at Mayo Clinic.