Kathryn Miller-Jensen

Kathryn Miller-Jensen is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University's School of Engineering & Applied Science. Her research focuses on understanding how intracellular and extracellular signaling networks regulate immune cell functions, particularly in macrophage activation and HIV latency in T cells. She leads the Miller-Jensen Lab, which employs systems immunology approaches combining quantitative experiments with computational models to study cellular heterogeneity and response variability.

Education: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT (advisor: Doug Lauffenburger), B.E. & B.A. from Dartmouth College. Prior roles include NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and Science & Technology Policy Fellow at The National Academies.

Research interests include: cellular response diversity in immunity, paracrine signaling in macrophage coordination, HIV reactivation dynamics, and systems-level analysis of tumor microenvironments. Key projects involve NF-κB signaling pathways and engineering tools to dissect immune responses.

• Selected Awards: NSF CAREER Award (2015), Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator (2014), SEAS Ackerman Teaching Award (2014)

Lab activities include developing microfluidic devices for single-cell analysis and co-organizing Systems Immunology conferences. Current initiatives focus on macrophage communication heterogeneity and combinatorial immunotherapies for cancer.