Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is a Distinguished University Professor and the S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine at Ohio State. She is also director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research. Ron Glaser (1939-2019) was the founder and former director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Medicine.
This husband and wife team collaborated extensively on research. Their collective work showed the critical impact stress has on the body’s immune system and the resulting progression of disease, including cancer. In the late 1990s, the National Institutes of Health awarded them $18 million to study the effects of stress on human health and immunity. At the time this was one of the largest federal research awards to Ohio State.
Kiecolt-Glaser is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has also won numerous awards including the George Soloman Award from the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society and the Patricia R. Barchas Award from the American Psychosomatic Society. Glaser was an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, past president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society.