Chloe McDonald

Chloe McDonald is a PhD Candidate at Sandra A. Rotman Laboratories, McLaughlin Rotman Centre for Global Health within the Translational Research Pillar.

Chloe's research focuses on the impact of pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) on neurological development in offspring.  Approximately 50 million pregnant women are exposed to malaria each year and PAM has profound maternal and fetal health consequences including maternal anemia, pre-term deliveries, intrauterine growth restriction and delivery of low birth weight infants.  Her research examines neurological development in offspring of PAM infected mothers using animal models of learning and memory as well as micro CT and MRI.  She also explores the effects of maternal genetic and pharmacological blockade of pathways associated with malaria pathology on reversing adverse maternal and fetal outcomes.