Simon Arnett Jones#
| Membership Number: | 5577 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/126448-jones-simon |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7297-9711 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Apr 2021 Co-Director and Lead for Multimorbidity, The Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK
- Apr 2017 - Mar 2021, Dean of Research, The School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK
- Mar 2015 Sept 2020 College Theme Lead for Infection, Immunology & Inflammation, The College of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
- May 2015 - Mar 2017 Deputy Director, Division of Infection & Immunity, The School of Medicine
- Jun 2012 - May 2015 Associate Director of Research for Infection & Immunity, Institute for Infection & Immunity, The School of Medicine
- Aug 2008 - present Professor of Inflammation Biology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK
- Jan 2005 Jul 2008 Reader, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK
- Jan 1999 Dec 2004 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK
- Jul 1996 - Dec 1998 American Heart Association Research Fellow, Dept. of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Sponsor: Professor Gerald M. Fuller)
- Jan 1994 - Jun 1996 Swiss Foundation Research Fellow, Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland (Sponsor: Professor Marco Baggiolini)
Fields of Scholarship
- Inflammation
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Jak-STAT signalling
- Chemokine biology
- Anti-microbial host defence
- STAT transcription factors
- Biological drugs against cytokine systems
- Leukocyte biology in innate and adaptive immunity
- Cytokine and cytokine receptor biology
- Interleukin-6 cytokine family
Honours and Awards
- 1998 American Heart Association Fellowship - University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- 2004 The Bolzmann Award- Presented by the International Cytokine Society (ICS) and the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) for important contributions to cytokine biology. (Awarded jointly with Professor Stefan Rose-John, Christian Albrecht Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
- 2015 Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology
- 2015 Health & Care Research Wales- elected Faculty Research Lead
- 2019 Elected Fellow of The Learned Society of Wales
