Professor Steven Jones

Professor of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia and Co-Director and Head of Bioinformatics, Genome Sciences Centre, and BC Cancer Vancouver, Canada

Professor Jones is Co-Director and Head of Bioinformatics at the Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, and Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. He has made important contributions to the field of genomics, having participated in projects to sequence the human, mouse, rat and bovine gene, amongst others. His research is focussed on the computational analysis of DNA sequence information, and understanding the genetic changes occurring in the development of human cancer.