John J. Lipuma

Dr. John J. LiPuma is Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School. He has been engaged in biomedical research for more than 30 years with a focus on bacterial infections of the airways in persons with cystic fibrosis (CF). His laboratory, which serves as a national reference laboratory for the CF Foundation, maintains an extensive culture collection that includes more than 46,000 strains of respiratory tract pathogens and has developed novel methods of bacterial genotyping to study the molecular epidemiology of CF-related respiratory tract pathogens, as well as numerous genotype-based methods for bacterial species identification.

Dr. LiPuma has authored or contributed to over 200 peer-reviewed publications related to CF, and he is currently engaged as Principal Investigator/Project Director in sponsored research projects with NIH/NHLBI and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.