Patrick C. Seed, MD, PhD, is President and Chief Research Officer at Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology–Immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In addition, he is an Attending Physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics and Past Division Head. Dr. Seed's lab aims to translate molecular knowledge of microbial/microbiome genetics, physiology, and pathogenesis into diagnostics and treatments for a broad range of pediatric diseases. The Seed Research Team combines human clinical studies, conventional and germ-free models, molecular genetics, immunology, biochemistry, structural biology, high-dimensional data computational analysis, and complementary 'omics technologies including genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics to understand complex systems. The lessons learned from these molecular studies are used to design new diagnostics and therapeutics.