Full Name
Steven Jones
Job Title
Co-Director and Head, Bioinformatics
Company/Org.
Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer
Speaker Bio
Dr. Jones is Co-Director and Head of Bioinformatics at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, and Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics at UBC.
Dr. Jones’s research focus is the computational analysis of DNA sequence and the analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data. He has applied next-generation DNA sequencing technology to determine the mutations and rearrangements driving many tumour types. A key goal is to develop bioinformatic approaches to predict the most efficacious therapies from the genetic analysis of patient tumour samples to help guide clinical decision making.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, he is recognized as one of the world’s most influential researchers by Clarivate Analytics.
He has been invited to give over 175 presentations globally, is an author on 568 peer-reviewed publications and is Principal Investigator and co-applicant on grants that have totalled over $717 million to date.
Dr. Jones’s research focus is the computational analysis of DNA sequence and the analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data. He has applied next-generation DNA sequencing technology to determine the mutations and rearrangements driving many tumour types. A key goal is to develop bioinformatic approaches to predict the most efficacious therapies from the genetic analysis of patient tumour samples to help guide clinical decision making.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, he is recognized as one of the world’s most influential researchers by Clarivate Analytics.
He has been invited to give over 175 presentations globally, is an author on 568 peer-reviewed publications and is Principal Investigator and co-applicant on grants that have totalled over $717 million to date.
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