President Neville Pinto shared the below message with the University of Cincinnati community this morning.

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you that, pending approval by the UC Board of Trustees, Dr. Loren Wold has been selected as the University of Cincinnati’s next Vice President for Research, effective August 10, 2026.

As a leading public R1 university, UC is committed to advancing discovery, creativity and scholarship that expands the boundaries of knowledge for our society. Dr. Wold will lead this mission, working across our campuses and disciplines to strengthen UC’s impressive research enterprise.

He comes to UC from The Ohio State University, where he currently serves as Senior Associate Vice President for Research, in support of the university’s $1.68 billion research enterprise. In this role, he helps to oversee 17 centers and institutes that together include over 200 staff and 1,500 faculty.

A member of the Ohio State faculty for the past two decades, Dr. Wold has held a range of academic and research leadership roles, including Associate Dean for Research Operations and Compliance in the College of Medicine, Director of Strategic Projects in the Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, Assistant Dean for Biological Health Research in the College of Nursing and Vice Chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology. He is also the John G. and Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and a tenured professor in the Department of Surgery at Ohio State’s College of Medicine.

Continue reading the complete announcement on the University of Cincinnati website here.