Michael Lauer

Michael is the Research Project Coordinator of the Hatfull lab’s compassionate-use mycobacteriophage therapy pipeline. His duties include reporting phage matches to physicians, administrative support for clinical trials and IND applications, and culmination of the clinical isolate datasets. Additionally, he explores phage, bacteria, and human host interactions using interdisciplinary approaches: determining antibody-mediated phage-neutralization responses from patient sera, phage-bacteria interactions via RNA-seq and immunoprecipitation, and employing CRISPR-based tools to study gene regulation during infection.

He earned his B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021.

Michael can be contacted at:

Department of Biological Sciences
4249 5th Avenue
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 624 6976
MJL157@pitt.edu