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 (2002-2004)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2002)
B.A., Human Biology, Stanford University (1996)

Select Awards & Honors

• National Academy of Inventors (NAI) senior member (2023)
• American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers fellow (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 – Cockrell School of Engineering (2012)
• Most Outstanding Professor in Chemical Engineering by Student Engineering Council – The University of Texas at Austin (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
• Molecular Biosciences + Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs, John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
• Texas Biologics

Select Publications