Nathaniel Jackson
Ph.D. Student
Nathaniel is interested in contributing to potential solutions to control viruses and their spread. As a PhD student, he is currently developing his dissertation and is interested in characterizing virulence factors of viruses and developing recombinant viruses expressing reporter genes to evaluate neutralizing antibodies and antivirals.
While completing his undergraduate studies, he was a research assistant at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, contributing to the development of a protein subunit vaccine and monoclonal antibody therapies to treat SARS-CoV-2.
Education
B.S in Biochemistry - University of Maryland College Park, 2021
Current Program: Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBMS) PhD program
Awards
2024 - Travel scholarship award to attend the Symposium on Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases for Clinicians and Translational Scientists at UTMB.