Rate My Professor Wendy Maury

Maury's seminal publications include "Tumor necrosis factor alpha activates human immunodeficiency virus type 1 through induction of nuclear factor binding to the NF-kappa B sites in the long terminal repeat" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1989), "T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 1 (TIM-1) is a receptor for Zaire Ebolavirus and Lake Victoria Marburgvirus" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011), "Role of the phosphatidylserine receptor TIM-1 in enveloped-virus entry" (Journal of Virology, 2013), and "Envelope protein ubiquitination drives entry and pathogenesis of Zika virus" (Nature, 2020). She has earned the Carver College of Medicine Teaching Award (2011), Collegiate Teaching Award, and John P. Long Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences. Maury serves on the editorial boards of Retrovirology and Journal of Virology, as Virology Pearls editor for PLOS Pathogens, and as inaugural chair of the NIH Viral Dynamics and Transmission study section. As co-director of two NIH T32 training grants, she trains the next generation of virologists. In 2024, she was awarded an NIH grant to investigate Ebola virus tropism in placental tissues during pregnancy.