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 is described in more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and focuses on elucidating the physiological and pathological response to tissue injury, characterizing tissue responses to biomaterials, and the development of novel therapeutics and platforms to enhance healing and repair.
Yaron is a 2021 recipient of the highly competitive NIH K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and a 2025 NIH R01 Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Additionally, he was 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. A proud Sun Devil, Jordan received his PhD 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 is an academic editor at the journal 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.
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The Yaron Lab applies chemical engineering principles to problems in inflammation, tissue repair, and therapeutic protein development. The group integrates mechanistic studies of protease regulation in skin and immune biology with the design of biomaterial systems that control the delivery and activity of protein therapeutics. Complementary work focuses on engineering protein expression and secretion to improve the production of biopharmaceuticals, linking molecular design to scalable manufacturing.