E. Yvonne Jones

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Yvonne Jones
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Jones in 2017
Born
Edith Yvonne Jones

1960 (age 6364)
Oswestry, England
Education Llanfyllin High School [1]
Alma mater Jesus College, Oxford
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Structural biology [3]
Institutions University of Edinburgh
University of Oxford
Thesis Structural and dynamic studies on biological macromolecules  (1985)
Doctoral advisor Andrew Miller
David Chilton Phillips [4]
Website www.strubi.ox.ac.uk/research/e-yvonne-jones

Edith Yvonne Jones (born 1960) [1] is a British molecular biologist who is director of the Cancer Research UK Receptor Structure Research Group at the University of Oxford [5] [6] [3] [7] and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. [8] She is widely known for her research on the molecular biology of cell surface receptors and signalling complexes. [9]

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Early life and education

Jones was born in 1960 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. [1] She was educated at Llanfyllin High School in Wales. [1] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics at Jesus College, Oxford in 1982. [8] She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford in 1985 for structural and dynamic studies of biological macromolecules supervised by Andrew Miller and David Chilton Phillips. [4]

Research and career

During postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh Jones performed neutron scattering experiments at the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble to investigate the properties of collagen. She subsequently returned to Oxford to learn protein crystallography, and determined one of the first structures of a cytokine, tumour necrosis factor (TNF) with David Stuart. [10] During her research, Jones contributed to the Medical Research Council (MRC) HIV/AIDS programs investigating the structure of reverse transcriptase for the development of antiviral drugs. [11] In 1991 Yvonne started her own research laboratory at the University of Oxford funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) until 2001. [1] In 1999 Yvonne co-founded the Division of Structural Biology (STRUBI) at Oxford. As of 2017, she is joint head of STRUBI and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. [12] [13]

Awards and honours

Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. [6] She was also elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2003,[ citation needed ] awarded the Descartes Prize by the European Union in 2002[ citation needed ] and awarded EMBO Membership in 2007. [8] She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2022. [14]

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