Dr. Kathryn Miller Jensen

Biography

Kathryn Miller-Jensen is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, where she also holds additional appointments in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. Her research employs quantitative, systems-level approaches to study intracellular and extracellular signaling networks that regulate immune cell functions. She focuses on how variability in single cells impacts immune responses, with research projects centered on the regulation of macrophage activation responses to pathogenic stimulation and tumor microenvironments, as well as the signaling networks regulating the reactivation of latent HIV in T cells. Miller-Jensen's contributions to bioengineering have been recognized with several awards, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2015 and the Cellular Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award in 2014. She was a National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and also served as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the National Academies. Her selected publications reflect work on single-cell signaling and immune cell behavior, contributing to the understanding of complex biological processes.

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