Rate My Professor Jeremy Green

Professor Jeremy Green is Professor of Developmental Biology and Vice Dean International (Research) in the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King’s College London, leading the Green Lab in the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Imperial College London in 1987. Early career highlights include an EU Fellowship in 1987, an MRC Training Fellowship in 1988, a Miller Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, and a role as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He joined King’s College London in 2005, where he promotes international research collaborations at postgraduate, postdoctoral, and investigator levels.

Green's research centers on morphogens, morphogenesis, and mechanisms of shape, pattern, and structure formation in the body. He co-discovered with Professor Sir Jim Smith the dose-threshold action of growth factor morphogens such as activin using Xenopus embryos, establishing foundations for directed stem cell differentiation. Employing mouse and Xenopus models, advanced microscopy, image analysis, and computational modeling, his lab studies self-organizing Reaction-Diffusion Turing patterning, physical morphogenesis of oral, craniofacial, and ectodermal structures, epithelial bending, tooth development, palatogenesis, cleft palate, rugal patterning, and Down syndrome craniofacial features. As Principal Investigator, he leads BBSRC projects like "Mechanisms of ventral body wall closure" (2023-2026) and serves as co-investigator on MRC-funded work on palate morphogenesis and clefting (2022-2025). His 59 publications have garnered 2271 citations. Notable recent papers include "Cap-to-bell stage molar tooth morphogenesis occurs through proliferation-independent sulcus sharpening and condensation-associated tension in the dental papilla" (Journal of Anatomy, 2025), "Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development" (Nature Cell Biology, 2024), "A double ovulation protocol for Xenopus laevis produces doubled fertilisation yield and moderately transiently elevated corticosterone levels without loss of egg quality" (PLoS ONE, 2024), and "Morphogen-driven differentiation is precluded by physical confinement in human iPSCs spheroids" (Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2024). Green's work advances regenerative biology and understanding of congenital anomalies.