Heather
D. Maynard received a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and a M.S. in Materials Science in 1995 from the
University of California, Santa Barbara. Her Ph.D. from the California Institute
of Technology was awarded in the summer of 2000 for research in the group of Nobel
Prize winner Robert Grubbs. She then moved to the laboratory of Jeffrey Hubbell
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich, where
from 2000-2002 she was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Maynard
joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2002 as the first
Howard Reiss Career Development Chair in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and as a member of the California Nanosystems Institute, where she is now an Associate
Professor. Maynard's interests focus on combining polymers with biomolecules for
applications in human health and nanotechnology. | |
Honors
and Awards - Bausch
& Lomb Science Award for Excellence in Chemistry, 1987
- Graduation
with Honors from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992
- Dow
Travel Fellowship Award, 1997
- American
Chemical Society Women's Committee Travel Award, 1998
- American
Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2002
- Howard
Reiss Career Development Chair, 2002-2007
- Amgen
New Faculty Award, 2004
- WCC
ACS Lecturer, South Methodist University, 2006
- Selected
as an Oustanding Emerging Investigator in Materials Chemistry by Journal of Materials
Chemistry, 2007
- Alfred
P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2006-2008
- NSF
CAREER Award, 2007-2012
- Seaborg
Award for Oustanding Research in Chemistry, 2007
- Hanson-Dow
Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007
- Walter
Enz Memorial Lecturer, University of Kansas, 2008
- Kavli Frontiers Fellow, 2011
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011
Professional
Preparation -
B.S. in Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992)
- M.S.
in Materials Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (1995)
- Ph.D.
in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (2000)
- American
Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
& University of Zurich (2000-02)
Academic
Appointments
- Associate
Professor, UCLA (2008-present)
- Assistant
Professor, UCLA (2002-2008)
Affiliations
- Member,
California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA (2002-present)
- Faculty
Affiliate, Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program, UCLA (2002-present)
- Training
Faculty Member, Chemistry-Biology Training Program, UCLA (2003-present)
- Member,
Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (2003-present)
- Faculty
Participant, Materials Creation Training Program (2004-present)
- Member,
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (2004-present)
- Executive
Committee and Faculty Mentor, Biotechnology Training Program, UCLA (2005-present)
- Training Faculty
Member , Nanotoxicology
Training Grant, UCLA (2006-present)
- Executive
Committee Member, Chemistry-Biology Training Program, UCLA (2008-2011)
- Director, Chemistry-Biology Training Program, UCLA (2011-present)
Editorial and Advisory Boards
- International Advisory Board, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2007-present)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Langmuir (2008-present)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Biomacromolecules (2008-present)
- International Advisory Board, Macromolecular Biosciences (2009-present)
- Editorial Board, Chemical Communications (2010-present)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules (2011-present)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Polymer Science A Polymer Chemistry (2011-present)
Professional
Memberships
- American
Chemical Society
- Division
of Polymer Chemistry, ACS
- Division
of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, ACS
- Royal
Chemical Society
- Society
for Biomaterials
- Drug
Delivery Division, Society for Biomaterials
- Materials
Research Society
- Association
for Women in Science
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