Dr. Era Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, since 2020. Before joining Syracuse University, Dr. Jain was a Research Scientist at Washington University in Saint Louis from 2017 to 2019 where she developed sustained drug delivery systems for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Prior to Washington University, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Saint Louis University where she developed biodegradable hydrogels for the controlled delivery of therapeutic proteins. Dr. Jain earned her Ph.D. in 2011 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. She obtained her Bachelor’s in Pharmacy in 2004 from India. Dr. Jain’s research focuses on engineering immunomodulatory biomaterials and drug delivery systems for advancing the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders and related inflammatory disorders. She is a member of the Society for Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Orthopaedics Research Society. She has contributed to 25 publications and 3 patents. She recently received the Discovery Award from DoD for her work targeting activated macrophages for developing immunomodulatory therapies for osteoarthritis.