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Edward Jones, MD, PhD
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Director/Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Center for Neuroscience
| Email: | ejones | @ | ucdavis.edu |
Edward G. Jones was born in New Zealand, where he received his M.D. in 1962 from the University of Otago. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, England in 1968. Jones held teaching positions at both universities before joining the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, in 1972. He became a U.S. citizen in 1978. In 1984 Jones joined the faculty at UC Irvine as chair of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. He assumed his current position as professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis in July 1998. In November 1998, he became the president of the Society for Neuroscience, a worldwide organization of more than 28,000 scientists and physicians. Jones is an authority on brain anatomy and recognized as a leading researcher of the central nervous system. In recent years, he has introduced molecular biology methodology to systems neuroscience to provide an integrated way of studying the nervous system. He has done groundbreaking work on schizophrenia, focusing on how changes at the molecular and cellular level are associated with the disorder. Jones also belongs to a group of scientists who are working on the nation's Human Brain Project, which supports the development of databases on the brain and of technologies to manage and share neuroscience information.
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