Sarah Rowland-Jones

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Sarah Louise Rowland-Jones
Alma mater University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Children1
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InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Thesis The role of class I MHC molecules in the presentation of viral antigens to cytotoxic T lymphocytes.  (1994)

Sarah Rowland-Jones FRCP is a British physician who is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford. She works on immune responses to HIV infection. She has focussed her research on problems caused by HIV in Africa, with a hope to create a successful HIV vaccine. She is the former president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. [1]

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Early life and education

Rowland-Jones was a medical student at the University of Cambridge. She was a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford, where she specialised in infectious diseases. She was a junior doctor in London during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and became interested in HIV infection. Rowland-Jones returned to the University of Oxford where she was made a Medical Research Council Fellow. Her research considered immune response to HIV infection. [1]

Research and career

Rowland-Jones remained at Oxford throughout her medical career. She worked as a clinician scientist, senior fellow and, eventually, professor. Her research considered the impact of HIV in African communities. She was particularly interested in the immune responses of populations who were uninfected by highly exposed, for example infants with HIV positive mothers and sex workers. [1] In particular, Rowland-Jones focussed on HIVcytomegalovirus (CMV) coinfection and how this impacts pathogensis. [2] She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000. [3]

Rowland-Jones was made Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine in 2001. [1] [4] The centre coordinates research in tropical medicine in low-income countries. She moved to The Gambia in 2004, where she oversaw research in the MRC Laboratories of The Gambia. She started working on HIV-2 as a model of attenuated HIV infection, and the role this may play in infant immune response. [4]

In 2008, Rowland-Jones returned to Oxford, where she was made a Professor of Immunology. [1] [5] She holds a joint position in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Sheffield. [2]

In 2018, Rowland-Jones was appointed President Elect of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She served as president from 2018 to 2019. [1] In 2020 she was appointed editor of the journal AIDS . [6]

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  6. Levy, Jay A.; Coutinho, Roel A.; Saag, Michael S. (15 November 2020). "AIDS new editor announcement". AIDS. 34 (14): 1995. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002691 . ISSN   0269-9370. PMID   32947591. S2CID   221799525.