Jordan R. Yaron

After being a Sun Devil for almost 20 years through his undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral work, Jordan R. Yaron is joining the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, as an assistant professor of chemical engineering. He also has a joint appointment in the Biodesign Institute.

“There was no doubt in my mind when I started my PhD almost 15 years ago that I wanted my independent research career to be at ASU,” Yaron says. “I know firsthand that ASU is an outstanding institution to perform world-class innovative research.”

Yaron’s research mainly focuses on promoting healing in complex skin and spinal cord injuries by engineering novel biologic therapies and drug delivery scaffolds. He wants to use engineering to help people, and that drives his desire to understand the fundamental mechanism of injuries and how to repair them.

Before joining the chemical engineering program, Yaron was an assistant research professor in both the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and the Biodesign Institute at ASU. He plans to draw from his experience to equip his chemical engineering students with relevant engineering skills. 

“Achieving understanding requires miles. Students should be prepared to run through ample examples and exercises to gain hands-on familiarity with how to solve chemical processing problems,” Yaron says. “I am also eager to develop coursework that will introduce chemical engineering students to long-term interests in biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing industries to the concepts of preclinical study design, including regulatory considerations in Good Manufacturing Practice-based process development.

Yaron is an accomplished researcher whose work has received various notable recognitions, including the 2022 Wound Healing Foundation 3M Fellowship Award, which is the most prestigious young investigator grant awarded to only one researcher annually. In 2021, his work on tissue repair augmentation through engineered biomaterials earned him the National Institutes of Health’s K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award. He also received the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre New Investigator Award and a Flinn Foundation Translational Seed Grant.

Outside of chemical engineering, Yaron enjoys spending time with his wife and daughters and pursuing his hobbies, including studying Wado Ryu karate, portrait photography and playing guitar.

He looks forward to embarking on a new journey with teaching. 

“I am excited for the opportunity to take a more hands-on approach to undergraduate and graduate education at ASU,” Yaron says. “I take a special interest in mentoring, and this will provide a new opportunity to explore that part of my career.”

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Written by Roger Ndayisaba