Department alumni Zac Jones receives National Science Foundation fellowship
July 11, 2024
Zac Jones, a former Joshua L. Price Lab member, is one of this year's recipients of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program at the National Science Foundation. The three-year fellowship will begin this autumn.
Jones graduated from BYU in April 2022. Since then, he has begun work at the University of Washington in Seattle as part of the Dr. Neil King Lab and is working toward earning a PhD. His current work focuses on developing a vaccine to combat Rift Valley Fever (RVFV), a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
"I am working on enhancing the prefusion stability of RVFV antigens Gn and Gc and scaffolding those antigens into nanoparticles," Jones said.
His research has a history of promising results. It has proven to bolster the immune system's response to nanoparticle-introduced antigens, an encouraging sign that his laboratory is on the right track.
The BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry wishes to congratulate Jones on receiving this prestigious award and looks forward to the contributions he will make to the scientific community.