Dr. Megan Baldridge is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Baldridge completed her MD/PhD training at Baylor College of Medicine, studying the effects of interferon-gamma on hematopoietic stem cells in the lab of Dr. Margaret Goodell, then during her postdoc explored the interactions between norovirus, intestinal bacteria, and host antiviral signaling molecule interferon-lambda in the lab of Dr. Herbert ‘Skip’ Virgin. Dr. Baldridge started her lab in 2016, and has received a Kenneth Rainin Foundation Innovator Award and a Pew Biomedical Scholar Award for her continued work on the influence of the microbiota on viral infection. Her lab now focuses on the role of the microbiota in regulating infection by enteric viruses norovirus and rotavirus, as well as in modulating mucosal vaccine responses to rotavirus and HIV vaccines.
