JenniferMaynard

About
Jennifer Maynard is a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering.

Jennifer Maynard’s lab develops protein therapeutics and vaccines to address unmet medical needs in infectious diseases. These proteins aim to directly interfere with disease progression or augment essential immune system activities.

Maynard’s specific research goals include understanding mechanisms of protective immunity and using this information to engineer more effective vaccines and therapeutics, and reverse-engineering pathogenic strategies used by bacterial pathogens for biomedical and biotechnological applications. She is also interested in controlling cellular immunity through manipulation of T cell receptor-peptide MHC interactions. and applying protein engineering approaches to issues in structural biology.

Educational Qualifications
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, 2004
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002
B.A., Human Biology, Stanford University, 1996

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• National Academy of Inventors (NAI) senior member (2023)
• Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (2017)
• Emerging Inventor of the Year Award – The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
• Bill & Melinda Gates Grand Challenge Awards (2009, 2016)
• Texas Exes Teaching Award for the Cockrell School of Engineering (2012)
• Most Outstanding Professor in Chemical Engineering – The University of Texas at Austin Student Engineering Council (2010)
• Packard Fellowship – David and Lucile Packard Foundation (2005)
• Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2003)
• National Research Service Award – National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2002-2004)

Related Websites
Maynard Lab

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