Harnessing engineered materials to study and direct immune function

Dr. Chris Jewell, Chief Scientific Officer at Cartesian Therapeutics and MPower Professor and Fischell Institute Translational Engineering Professor at the University of Maryland (Bioengineering), and Research Biologist with the US Dept of Veterans Affairs, gives his talk, “Harnessing engineered materials to study and direct immune function,” Tuesday, April 8th at 4pm, in the Donnelly Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 109.

Dr. Jewell’s research focuses on understanding the interactions between synthetic materials and lymph nodes, and exploiting these interactions for therapeutic vaccination. He established his lab at the University of Maryland in 2012. Leading the lab’s outreach efforts, he works with more than 500 area high school students to promote STEM research exposure, building community awareness about STEM opportunities in the cancer field, and fundraising for local and national charities. Chris was previously the recipient of a Society for Biomaterials STAR Award, an American Association of Immunologists Trainee Award, and the Controlled Release Society T. Nagai Postdoctoral Achievement Award. In 2012, Dr. Jewell appeared in USA Today representing the Chemical Engineering discipline as a “New Face of Engineering” during National Engineers Week. Chris was also selected in 2013 as the state of Maryland’s Outstanding Young Engineer by the Maryland Academy of Science, the state’s highest professional honor awarded to an engineer under 36.

The event is hybrid