Lauren
Maynor

Lauren Maynor is the spring intern with NTI’s Global Biological Policy and Programs (NTI | bio) team. In this role she supports research efforts on strengthening biotechnology governance and upholding global norms against bioweapon development and use.

She recently finished her MA in Bioethics, Tech Ethics, and Science Policy from Duke University.  Maynor focused on the intersection of science and AI and considered their impact on national security. During this time, she interned with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analyzing the convergence of synthetic biology and AI. For this project she interviewed key stakeholders and wrote policy recommendations for safeguards.

Maynor received her undergraduate from Washington College (Chestertown, MD). She majored in Biology (conc. Cell/Molecular Biology and Infectious Disease) and minored in Chemistry and Public Health.  Her senior capstone thesis was on the role of natural killer cells in latent and active tuberculosis. She interned at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Flaminia Catteruccia’s Lab working to create an in-vitro protocol to study the growth of the Plasmodium falciparummalaria parasite. Maynor also worked in Mala Misra’s lab at Washington studying the development of neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) in larval Drosophila melanogaster.