Lauren O. Bakaletz PhD

Lauren O. Bakaletz, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Vice President of Basic Sciences at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, USA; positions she has held since 2003 and 2006, respectively.

Dr. Bakaletz also holds the Tillie E. Coleman Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She is a Professor in the Departments of both Pediatrics and Otolaryngology within the College of Medicine at the Ohio State University where, in 2013, Dr. Bakaletz was named a College of Medicine Distinguished Professor, a permanent honorific title.

She has served on multiple advisory boards, grant application review boards and editorial boards and is listed as inventor on 26 issued U.S. patents. During her professional career, Professor Bakaletz has contributed nearly 160 original articles, reviews and book chapters, and has presented over 300 papers at national and international scientific meetings and symposia.