Jessica Larsen
Clemson University
Biography
Professor Jessica Larsen is the Carol and John '63 Cromer Family Endowed Associate Professor. She began her academic career at the University of Virginia, obtaining her BS in Chemical Engineering in 2012. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University, where she was able to perform research under Drs. Mark Byrne in Chemical Engineering and Doug Martin in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Her research focuses on polymer-based nanotechnology to enable the treatment of neurologic conditions, delivering drugs across the blood-brain and blood-nerve barriers. In her undergraduate mentoring efforts, she has received the Phil and Mary Bradley Award for Mentoring in Creative Inquiry in 2020. She was also selected as the 2021 Outstanding Faculty Woman at Clemson University. She received the NSF CAREER Award in the Spring of 2021, the Governor’s Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in 2022, and the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Science Junior Researcher of the Year in 2024.
Jessica has been an invited speaker at the Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, and the World Biomaterials Congress. Her work has been continually funded by the NSF, NIH, and multiple disease-specific foundations since her lab's inception in 2017.
RSC affiliations
Editorial Board, RSC Pharmaceutics