Jordan R. Yaron, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) and a core faculty member in the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation (CBIT) at Arizona State University. Yaron’s research focuses on elucidating physiological and pathological processes in skin, characterizing tissue responses to biomaterials, and developing novel therapeutics, dressings, and drug delivery scaffolds to enhance healing and repair, as described in more than 45 peer-reviewed publications. His laboratory integrates molecular and cellular biology with biomaterials science and protein engineering to uncover mechanisms that drive tissue repair and regeneration, with particular emphasis on the roles of serine protease inhibitors (serpins) in epithelial processes.

Yaron received his Ph.D. in Biological Design at ASU in 2015 with Deirdre Meldrum, Ph.D., for his work on the ion flux-dependent regulation of the NLRP3 inflammasome, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Mayo Clinic with Vijay Singh, M.D., investigating lipotoxicity in acute disease, and at ASU’s Biodesign Institute with Alexandra Lucas, M.D., developing virus-derived therapeutics for tissue repair and inflammation. He was the 2022 recipient of the Wound Healing Foundation 3M Fellowship Award, and his research has been supported by an NIH R01 Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, an NIH K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and a New Investigator Award from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre.