Jennifer Cochran

Jennifer Cochran is the Shriram Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. She is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, Chemical Engineering and a member of the Cancer Biology and Biophysics graduate programs. Dr. Cochran also serves as the Director of the Stanford/NIH Biotechnology pre-doctoral training program. Her research focuses on protein-based drug discovery and development for applications in oncology and regenerative medicine, and development of new technology for high-throughput protein analysis and engineering. Dr. Cochran obtained her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the MIT, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biological Engineering. While on leave from Stanford from 2015-2017, she served in the role of Chief Scientific Officer at Lagunita Biosciences, a healthcare investment company and incubator. During this time, she co-founded several companies and served in various executive roles in these organizations. Dr. Cochran has received the Howard Temin Award for Cancer Research, the Mallinckrodt Faculty Scholar Award, a Sidney Kimmel Scholar Award, Hellman Faculty Scholar Award, and Abeloff Scholar Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research.