Dr Michael D Jones

Mick Jones is Reader in Molecular Medicine in the Department of Medicine. He is the Course Director of the MSc in Molecular Medicine course based at the Hammersmith Hospital Campus.

Dr Jones obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham. After post-doctoral fellowships in Aarhus, Denmark and at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund laboratories in London, he moved to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith in 1985 as a Wellcome Trust Lecturer working on the genomic structure and function of herpes viruses.

He is joint head of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Genomics Laboratory. The Genomics Laboratory provides state of the art facilities for high-throughput genomic research, including next generation whole genome DNA sequencing, as well as conventional DNA sequencing. The laboratory supports Affymetrix GeneChip, Agilent and other spotted array technologies.

He is also a College Tutor.