Aleksandra Leligdowicz
Assistant Professor
Scientist
Postdoc: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Postdoc: University of Toronto, Canada
MD: McGill University, Canada
PhD: Oxford University, UK
Critical Care Fellowship: University of Toronto
Internal Medicine: University of British Columbia
Office: Robarts Research Institute, Room 4220
Phone: 519-661-2111, ext: 87241
Email: aleligdo@uwo.ca
Lab Website: https://www.robarts.ca/research/scientists/leligdowicz_aleks.html
Area of Study:
Immune regulation in early critical illness
-Critical Care
-Sepsis
-ARDS
-Immune responses
-Endotoxin tolerance
-Endothelial Injury
-Precision medicine
Research Profile
Dr. Leligdowicz is a clinician scientist in the Department of Medicine in the division of Critical Care Medicine. She completed a medical degree at McGill University and a PhD at Oxford University in human HIV immunology in West Africa. Following residencies in internal medicine (UBC) and adult critical care (UofT), she pursued her interest in immunology and severe infection as a postdoctoral research scholar at UCSF. Her laboratory at Robarts Research Institute uses cellular and molecular tools to study prospective biological samples from patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to understand the mechanisms of immune regulation in severe infection. The focus of her research is translational biology of immune responses and endothelial injury in early sepsis, to understand pathology, improve diagnosis, and personalize treatment of this complex syndrome.
