Dr. Jamey D. Young is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (MPB) at Vanderbilt University. The overall goal of his lab is to develop novel engineering approaches to measure, understand, and control cellular metabolism.
He received a B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky (1999) and a Ph.D. from Purdue University (2005), both in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Young continued his training at MIT as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow from 2005-08. He was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2010, the DOE Early Career Award in 2012, and he was named a Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow in 2017. He is also the Director of the Chemical Engineering Graduate Program at Vanderbilt, and received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the ChBE department in 2018.
Dr. Young has authored over 60 articles and book chapters describing the application of metabolic flux analysis and mathematical modeling to investigate research questions of relevance to medicine and biomanufacturing. Dr. Young is also a co-founder of Metalytics, LLC, which is a provider of metabolic flux analysis software and services to the biotechnology industry.