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Leah Pyter, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, has been appointed director of The Ohio State University Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research (IBMR). She has served as co-director of the Ohio State College of Medicine’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and co-chair of the College of Medicine’s Research Space Committee. Her research focuses on further understanding the mental and bodily health of cancer patients and cancer survivors to improve outcomes. Specifically, her work examines the immune-mediated effects of cancer on behavior and tissue repair.
Carol R Bradford, MD, MS, FACS, dean of the Ohio State College of Medicine, says Dr. Pyter’s experience and direction is poised to advance excellence to the research institute and to the future of delivering leading-edge treatment and care.
“Following her vision will not only allow the IBMR to evolve,” Dr. Bradford says. “But it will also advance individual and community health as teams discover ways to advance medical treatments.”
Dr. Pyter has proven she is dedicated to innovation and growing research in the university. She has seven funded research grants, including two from the National Cancer Institute. Her research centers further understanding how disease-induced influences the body’s immune response in the brain and other anatomical systems. She has been invited to present all around the world, and most recently about the impact of gut microbiome on behavioral side effects induced by cancer treatments. She is a current member of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, the PsychoNeurolmmunology Research Society and the International Behavior Neuroscience Society.
Dr. Pyter is a visionary for innovative research, a mentor to many and a driver of excellence. As IBMR director, she will further the exploration of innovative mind-body research that will greatly impact public health and discovery.
