She received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry from Lafayette College and PhD in immunology from The Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She completed her post-doctoral training at at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, where she investigated causes and consequences of immune senescence and the impact of caloric restriction on delaying immune senescence. Dr. Messaoudi became an assistant professor at OHSU, then moved to University of California-Riverside before joining UCI in January 2017. Research in Dr. Messaoudi’s laboratory is focused on understanding how immunity is dysregulated by age, nutrition and viral infections.