Vice Chancellor/Associate Dean/Professor
Washington University
Jennifer Lodge, PhD has been Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University in St. Louis since 2014, and Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine since 2009. In her administrative roles, she guides school and university investments in research, as well as oversees research compliance, education, and grants and contracts.
As an active researcher, her laboratory studies the human pathogenic fungus, Cryptococcus neoformans, and focuses on biochemical processes of the fungal cell wall that are essential for fungal survival which may lead to novel antifungal therapies and vaccines. She has published over 60 peer reviewed papers, and has had continuous NIH funding since 1997. She currently is the PI on two NIH R01 grants. She was elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2011, to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, and to the National Academy of Inventors in 2016. She is a 2014 graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program and a recipient of the 2015 Academy of Science - St. Louis Trustee award. She serves on multiple boards, on NIH review panels, editorial boards, and is the past Chair of the Group on Research at the AAMC.
Lodge graduated from Oberlin College with honors in 1979, earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in 1988, was a postdoctoral researcher at both Monsanto Co. and Washington University, and a faculty member for 11 years at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, where she was Associate Dean for Research from 2005-2009.
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Friday, October 23, 2020
2:45pm – 4:00pm EDT