Summer
2003
Chairs of Distinction
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| Heather Maynard with John McTauge |
Her
revolutionary research examines the use of polymers as cancer-inhibiting
drugs. In addition to developing strategies to create polymeric
drugs that inhibit cancer, “we are also using a technique
called molecular imprinting to prepare materials that detect tumor
markers,” says Maynard, who came to UCLA in August 2002 as
an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and as a member of the multidisciplinary California NanoSystems
Institute. Detecting these markers has important diagnostic and
prognostic value in fighting cancer, she explains.
With
B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill and Caltech respectively, and an M.S. in materials
science from UC Santa Barbara, Maynard’s skills and research
are truly interdisciplinary. Before joining the UCLA faculty, she
was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology and University of Zurich in Switzerland.
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