Jason McLellan at the 2022 LaMontagne Lecture
Mar
22
2022
Mar
22
2022
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Dr. McLellan is the Welch Chair in Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin. The title of his presentation was “Coronavirus Vaccines: How We Got Here and Where We Are Going.”
Dr. McLellan has worked to understand how viral protein structures operate. Viral protein structure and function are important for the development of vaccines and potential treatments for deadly viruses that have impacted the lives of billions of people. Dr. McLellan and his collaborators have engineered a key protein of coronaviruses for use in vaccines. His team has developed technology found in many leading vaccines against COVID-19 (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, and Novavax). This discovery led to his selection as Texas Inventor of the Year by the State Bar of Texas’s Intellectual Property Section, which annually recognizes individuals and their inventions that have “significantly impacted the Texas economy.” McLellan and his colleagues also designed key proteins that form the basis of several vaccines. These vaccines are directed against coronaviruses as well as respiratory syncytial virus, a virus especially dangerous for young children and seniors. He is the winner of multiple scientific awards, and his research and expertise have been featured in multiple media outlets.
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Connally Ballroom, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center
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