Jordan Green
Dr. Jordan Green, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
“We congratulate these accomplished individuals and encourage them to continue to serve as an example of the incredible promise and ingenuity of the American people,” President Obama said in announcing the award recipients.
Green is also an associate professor of Ophthalmology, Oncology, and Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an executive committee member of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology and a co-founder of the Translational Tissue Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins.
Green serves as the Chair of the Drug Delivery Special Interest Group of the Society For Biomaterials. He is also the CEO and co-founder of the Baltimore biotech startup company,AsclepiX Therapeutics.
Green’s main research interests are applying chemical engineering principles to develop biomaterials and nanobiotechnology to meet challenges in human health.