Welcome to the Yaron Lab

Molecular and Biomaterial Engineering for Repair (MBER) Lab

New to ASU in Fall 2024

We are a new lab within the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation.

Principal Investigator

Portrait of Jordan Yaron

Jordan Yaron

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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The Problem

Complex Tissue Injury and Lack of Effective Repair

Injuries are a ubiquitous fact of life. However, despite multiple millions of new cases each year and several billions of dollars in annual health care costs, there are no effective treatments for complex many types of complex injuries, such as those in the skin and spinal cord.

A complex diagram of a human body attempting to recover from injury. Boilogical processes described in various callouts within the diagram

Our Approach

  1. Development of novel biomaterial scaffolds with enhanced and expanded functionality to promote tissue repair and regeneration.
  2. Controlled delivery of bioactives to stimulate reparative pathways.
  3. Identification and development of novel bioactive agents by reverse-engineering both dysfunctional signaling observed in the disease state and activated pathways stimulated by effective biomaterial treatments.
Image: Spinal cord injury in rats treated with a biodegradable and injectable chitosan and collagen hydrogel with sustained delivery of the immune-modulating, virus-derived biologic Serp-1. Read more at  J. Clin. Med. 20209(4), 1221