Professor
University of Maryland
Christopher M. Jewell is the MPower Professor and the Minta Martin Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering. He is also a Research Biologist with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Jewell is a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT). In 2021, Dr. Jewell was named the Miegunyah Distinguished Faculty Fellow (Australia). His work has been supported by over $22M in funding, resulting in 120+ manuscripts and patents, including in ACS Nano, Cell Reports, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Materials, PNAS, Trends in Immunology, and others. Some of Dr. Jewell’s awards include being honored by the White House as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), selection as a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator, appointment as an Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine, receipt of the Outstanding Lectureship in Drug Delivery from the Materials Research Society, receipt of the NSEF Young Investigator Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and selection as the University of Maryland’s Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year. Chris was also named the state of Maryland’s Outstanding Young Engineer by the Maryland Academy of Science. Dr. Jewell graduated from Lehigh University in 2003 with high honors, earning dual degrees in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology. He received his PhD in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison before joining the Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he worked in R&D strategy with global pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Jewell carried out his postdoctoral training as a Ragon Institute Fellow working with Dr. Darrell Irvine at MIT and as a Visiting Scientist at Harvard with Dr. Dan Barouch in the division of Vaccine Research.