Katherine Luzuriaga is an American physician and pediatric immunologist who primarily works on HIV/AIDS at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS).
[2] She cites both her parents in her decision to become a medical doctor: her father was an engineer who taught her a love of science and math and her mother was a nurse.
She has served as the division chief of pediatric infectious diseases and later became the founding director of the medical school's Office of Global Health.
[7] Working alongside Dr. Deborah Persaud, the team demonstrated that a two-year old treated with antiretroviral drugs "no longer has detectable levels of virus using conventional testing despite not taking HIV medication for 10 months".
[12] In April 2013, Luzuriaga was included on Time Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World for her work on preventing AIDS from being transmitted to newborn babies.