Ninghao (Jason) Jiang, Ph.D.

...being the only forward deploying carrier strike group in Japan, there’s a lot of things you have to worry about, not only in the theater, but also real world crises.

Dr. Jason Jiang is CNA research analyst and field representative, based in Yokusuka, Japan working for Navy’s Carrier Group Five aboard the USS Kitty Hawk where he provides operational support to the command both in operational perspective and strategic planning perspective.

Jiang joined CNA in 2007 after studying as a graduate research assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he developed a new sustained, controlled-release drug delivery method to treat diseases in the back of the eye.

Using microscopic needles developed in his Georgia Tech laboratory (he microfabricated various types of microneedles including solid metal, hollow glass and biodegradable polymer needles) his method is intended to deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat diseases, such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, in a minimally invasive manner. His doctoral thesis is titled “Ocular Drug Delivery using Microneedles.”

While at Georgia Tech, he also collaborated with ophthalmologists from Emory University to perform ocular drug delivery using microneedles in animal in vivo, and collaborated in with colleagues to design and develop a new biodegradable drug-release implantation device using microneedles. During his studies he also monitored undergraduate Unit Operation labs and teamed with faculty members to design chemical plants in Senior Design course.

Jiang earned a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Jiang, who was born in China and immigrated to the United States at the age of 14, is fluent in Mandarin and Shanghainese. (Click here to see an interview of Dr. Jiang.)