Jordan Yaron
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Jordan R. Yaron, PhD, is an assistant professor of chemical engineering in Arizona State University’s School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) and the Biodesign Institute Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation. Yaron's research focuses on elucidating the physiological and pathological response to tissue injury, characterizing tissue responses to biomaterials, and the development of novel therapeutics, dressings, and drug delivery scaffolds to enhance healing and repair described in more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. Yaron is a 2021 recipient of the highly competitive NIH K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the 2022 recipient of the Wound Healing Foundation 3M Fellowship Award, the most prestigious early career award given by the society, and a 2023 recipient of an Arizona Biomedical Research Centre New Investigator Award and a Flinn Foundation Translational Seed Grant. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic with Vijay Singh, MD, studying molecular factors leading to adverse outcomes of acute pancreatitis and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the ASU Biodesign Institute with Alexandra Lucas, MD, developing recombinant virus-derived therapeutics for dermal and corneal wound healing, spinal cord injury, liver ischemia-reperfusion injury, lupus-associated lung hemorrhage and lethal gammaherpesvirus vasculitis. Jordan received his PhD in biological design at ASU in 2015 with Deirdre Meldrum, PhD, for his work describing the regulation of the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway by the flux of potassium and calcium ions across macrophage membranes. He has editorial roles in the journals Pharmaceutics, Frontiers in Immunology, and PLOS ONE, is a member of the Society for Biomaterials and the Inflammation Research Association and holds leadership roles in the Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society and Wound Healing Society.