Professor Jessica D. Weaver is an associate professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and her research centers on developing translatable cell-based therapies for the treatment of disease, with a focus on cell therapies to induce tolerance in transplantation and for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The Weaver lab uses biomaterials and immune engineering approaches with the aim to generate immunosuppression-free transplantation strategies.

Weaver was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar fellowship at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she will collaborate with Biomedical Engineering Faculty on her research proposal “Vascularized macroencapsulated cell therapies for the treatment of type 1 diabetes”.