My name is Adriana Herrera Tremoulet. During my third year at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, my interest in doing patient-related research steered me to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP). 

My CRTP year consisted of designing retroviral mediated gene transfer for X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency in the laboratory of Harry Malech, M.D. in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  An invaluable facet of my CRTP experience was realizing the importance of a mentor/protégé relationship. 

Dr. Malech’s mentoring and support has been instrumental in my career through residency, fellowship, and on to my faculty appointment.  As an alumnus of CRTP, I can look back and see how beneficial it was. I’m now an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Pediatric Pharmacology Research Center at the University of California, San Diego. I wrote a successful NIH Career Development (K-23) Award focusing on the pharmacology of lamivudine in HIV-infected children, and I recently received 4-year funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study Kawasaki Disease.