Washington University School of Medicine Jennifer Lodge, PhD, the vice chancellor for research at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural David T. Blasingame Professor. Jennifer K. Lodge, PhD, the vice chancellor for research at Washington University in St. Louis and a leading expert in fungus that can cause a potentially fatal brain infection, has been named the inaugural David T. Blasingame Professor. She also serves as the senior associate dean for research and a professor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine. The new professorship, funded by Washington University, was created to honor the extraordinary contributions of David T. Blasingame, who led the university’s Alumni & Development Office for 28 years until his retirement in 2018.