Group News

2023

  • July 2023: Congratulations to Grace and Billy for receiving the Dissertation Year Fellowship!

2021

  • February 2022: Congratulations to Billy for receiving the Senior Foote Fellowship!

  • December 2021: The Maynard group welcomes first year graduate students Katherine Snell and Felix Fu!

  • September 2021: The Maynard group welcomes postdoc Pedro Salas!

  • June 2021: Congratulations to Mikayla for receiving the Summer Mentored Research Fellowship for 2021!

  • May 2021: Congratulations to Madeline for receiving the Michael E. Jung Excellence in Teaching Award!

  • May 2021: Congratulations to Doug receiving the Dr. Yuh Guo Pan Dissertation Award in Organic Chemistry and to Neil for receiving the Theodore A. Geissman Dissertation Award!

  • April 2021: Congratulations to Billy for becoming a Dean Scholar!

  • April 2021: Congratulations to Elaine for receiving the UCLA Alumni Research Summer Fellowship!

  • March 2021: Neil’s paper is chosen as Paper of the Month in Polymer Chemistry blog written by Professor Athina Anastasaki. Congrats!

  • February 2021: Heather elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows!

  • February 2021: Heather named an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS)!

2020

  • December 2020: The Maynard group welcomes first year graduate students, Ellie Puente and Haillie Lower!

  • November 2020: Alumni Uland Lau and his group at Neoleukin publish paper on COVID nuetralization in Science. Congrats Uland and team!

  • October 2020: Congratulations to Priera in co-writing a meeting report for #BlackChemistsWeek and #BlackInChem in Nature Chemistry!

  • September 2020: Congratulations to Priera for giving her exit seminar, Nik for receiving his Master’s, and to Hayden for passing her orals!

  • June 2020: Kathryn and Kyle both give their exit seminars. Good luck to Kathryn at her new position at Genentech and to Kyle at his position at Gilead!

  • June 2020: Congratulations to Grace for receiving the CBI Training Grant!

  • May 2020: Congratulations to Mikayla and Jane for passing their oral exams!

  • April 2020: “Glucose‐Responsive Trehalose Hydrogel for Insulin Stabilization and Delivery” is one of the top 10% most downloaded publications in Macromolecular Bioscience over the past two years. Congrats!

  • March 2020: Mikayla and Grace receive NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions. Congrats, Mikayla and Grace!

  • March 2020: The Maynard Group welcomes first year graduate student Billy Treacy, first year medical student Matt Zhao, and first year undergraduate Elaine Chao! Welcome Billy, Matt, and Elaine!

  • February 2020: Former group member Marco Messina receives a prestigious UC Presidential Fellowship. Way to go Marco!

  • January 2020: The Maynard Group welcomes first year graduate student, Grace Kunkel!

  • January 2020: Jane receives the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Excellence in Research Fellowship. Congrats Jane!

2019

  • December 2019: Alumni James Hendrick named Forbes 30 under 30 honoree. Congrats!

  • June 2019: Omar receives the Dolores Cannon Southam Award for Excellence in Research graduation award. Congrats!

  • June 2019: Marco receives the Boehringer-Ingelheim-UCLA Dissertation Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry. Congrats!

  • June 2019: Nik received Biotechnology Training Grant Fellowship. Congrats!

  • May 2019: Kathryn and Priera receive Dissertation Year Fellowship. Congrats!

  • April 2019: Heather receives the 2019 ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award.

  • April 2019: Marco Messina receives the John Stauffer Fellowship for outstanding research in Chemistry & Biochemistry!

  • January 2019: The Maynard group welcomes postdoc Daniele Vinciguerra and first year graduate students Hayden Montgomery, Mikayla Tan, Nik Theopold, & Jane Yang!

2018

  • November 2018: Heather elected as a AAAS fellow

  • October 2018: Heather included in Women in Bioconjugate Chemistry

  • September 2018: Heather selected as one of the 100 Women in Chemistry in RSC

  • May 2018: Emma got the Thomas L. and Ruth F. Jacobs Award and JK got the Elsevier Reaxys-UCLA Dissertation Award; both graduation awards. Congrats Emma and JK!

  • May 2018: Heather wins the UCLA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award!

  • April 2018: Kathleen and Priera were accepted into the INFEWS Training Program!

  • February 2018: Heather invited to EAB of ACS Macro Letters

  • January 2018: Heather is appointed the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science

  • January 2018: JK receives the UCLA graduate Award for Interdisciplinary Research!

  • January 2018: Emma receives the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Leadership Award!

2017

  • November 2017: Arvind and Kathleen joined the Maynard group! Welcome Arvind and Kathleen!

  • August 2017: Heather will receive the 2018 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award!

  • June 2017: Congratulations Neil for being awarded the CBI Training Fellowship!

  • June 2017: Congratulations Madeline for being awarded the NIH Biotechnology Training Grant!

  • May 2017: Congratulations Emma and JK for being awarded the Dissertation Year Fellowship!

  • May 2017: Congratulations Omar and Warrick for being awarded the summer undergraduate research fellowship!

  • May 2017: Welcome Omar, our newest undergraduate researcher!

  • March 2017: Congratulations Marco on being awarded the Foote Fellowship!

  • February 2017: Our Bioconjugate paper gets press in C&E News!

  • February 2017: Heather is elected a PMSE Fellow of the ACS!

  • January 2017: Heather receives a Fullbright Specialist Grant for New Zealand!

2016

  • November 2016: Heather featured in interview about heparin mimicking polymers papers in Biomacromolecules!

  • November 2016: Heather and Yuta’s paper receives cover!

  • October 2016: Sam and Kathy’s paper receives cover!

  • September 2016: Heather is invited to JACS Editorial Advisory Board!

  • June 2016: Kathryn is selected for the NIH Biotechnology Training Grant! Congrats Kathryn!

  • March 2016: Priera is selected for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). Congrats Priera!

  • February 2016: Congratulations to Natalie for winning best poster award at the International Nanobiotechnology meeting!

  • January 2016: Congratulations to Emma on being awarded the Foote Fellowship!

  • January 2016: Uland successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr. Lau!

2015

  • December 2015: Priera wins the Edwin W. Pauley Foundation Award!

  • December 2015: Graduate student Kathryn and Postdoc Liang (PhD Warwick from O’Reilly and Dove) join group!

  • October 2015: Heather’s News and Views article in Nature is published and Heather is quoted in C&E News!

  • October 2015: New students join the group, welcome Priera, Kyle, and Monica!

  • June 2015: Heather appears in video to let undergraduates know what it is like to be a professor!