Scott Hultgren, Ph.D. is the Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He has also been the Director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Diseases Research at Washington University School of Medicine since 2007. Dr. Hultgren's research focuses on understanding the bacterial and host factors that govern the susceptibility, onset, progression and outcome of urinary tract infections (UTI) to understand fundamental UTI pathophysiology. His work has spawned development of novel vaccines and anti-microbial therapeutics to diagnose, treat and prevent UTIs and their sequelae.

Dr. Hultgren has been elected into the National Academies of Sciences (2011), Medicine (2017) and Inventors (2020).