Simon Arnett Jones - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1994 PhD Biochemistry, University of Bristol
  
• 1990 BSc Applied Biological Sciences, Bristol Polytechnic

• 2015 - 2021 Versus Arthritis Programme Grant. £907,778. How do cytokines signalling through the transcription factors STAT1 and STAT3 determine the course of synovial inflammation? SA Jones (PI), NM Williams, GW Jones, EH Choy, AS Williams, VB O’Donnell
  
• 2020 - 2022 Mestag Therapeutics. Novel targeting of cytokine receptors. £347,000. SA Jones
  
• 2018 - 2022 GSK. £357,572. IL-27 gene therapy: SA Jones (PI), GW Jones
  
• 2019 - 2023 Systems Immunity/Monash University Joint PhD Scheme. £90,000. Cytokine control of disease heterogeneity in synovitis. SA Jones (PI), T Tiganis, SM Turner, NM Williams
  

• Grant panels
  
• Royal Irish Academy
  
• Early Entry Grant Panel (2008)
  
• Versus Arthritis (Arthritis Research UK)
  
• Research Sub-Committee (2011-16; Vice Chair 2015)
  
• Programme Grant Outline Panel (2015, 2016)
  
• USER Group (Lay panel; 2015, 2016)
  
• Joint Cancer Research UK Partnership Group (2018)
  
• Disease Sub-Committee– (Vice Chair 2017-20)
  
• Health & Care Research Wales
  
• Grants Committee (2012)
  
• Research for Patient & Public Benefit (Deputy Chair; 2013-18)
  
• Health Fellowships Committee (2014)
  
• Health Research Board Ireland
  
• Joint Medical Research Charities Panel (2016, 2018)
  
• Investigator Led Projects (Chair 2019)
  
• Trials Methodology Research Network Review Panel (Chair 2021)
  
• Medical Research Council UKRI
  
• Infection & Immunity Board (2020-24)
  
• COVID-19 Agile Panel (2020-21)
  
• Welsh Government
  
• Sêr Cymru II– College of Experts Independent Evaluation Panel (2015-18)

• Journal Biological Chemistry (2015-20; 2022-27)
  
• Frontiers in Immunology (Review Editor)
  
• Function

• Pharmaceutical companies
  
  • Roche/Chugai (tocilizumab); Sanofi-Regeneron (sarilumab); Janssen, EUSA Pharma (siltuximab); Ferring (olamkicept); NovImmune SA (NI-1201; NI-101).
    
• Charities
  
  • Versus Arthritis, Senior Stakeholder Group
    
• Government
  
  • Welsh Higher Education Brussels Board

• International Cytokine & Interferon Society
  
• Organiser of Cytokines2021 (Chair)
  
• Development Committee - exploring industry links

• Learned Society of Wales
  
• The Royal Soc Biol
  
• Brit Soc Immunology
  
• Am Soc Mol & Cell Biol