Laura Gillim-Ross, PhD

Dr Gillim-Ross is discipline director for infectious disease immunology at Labcorp and a director in the Department of Science and Technology in Burlington. She previously served as the Technical Director for the Denver Regional Laboratory. Prior to joining Labcorp, Dr Gillim-Ross served as the CLIA laboratory director for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) directing the activities of the state laboratory including environmental chemistry, radiochemistry, microbiology, molecular sciences, environmental microbiology, newborn screening, evidential breath alcohol testing, laboratory certification (medical labs, environmental labs, and marijuana testing facilities), and bioterrorism and chemical terrorism testing.

Dr Gillim-Ross has more than 18 years of experience in infectious disease research and testing and has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts in such journals as Journal of Virology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

She holds a BS in molecular and cellular biology from Haverford College in Pennsylvania and a PhD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She was a CDC/APHL emerging infectious diseases research fellow at the Wadsworth Center, NY Department of Health, and a research fellow in pandemic vaccine development at the NIAID, NIH. Dr Gillim-Ross is a board-certified high complexity laboratory director through the American Board of Bioanalysis.