Professor of Medicine
Emory University
Dean P. Jones, Ph.D, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory at Emory University. He has formal training in nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular toxicology, and more than 40 years directing an academic research program on nutritional biochemistry, redox biology and human health. Over the past decade, he advanced the use of ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry for high-throughput metabolomics and, through collaborative research, has applied this to a broad range of human exposome research. This research established methods to measure metabolites in most metabolic pathways, as well as thousands of environmental chemicals, dietary, microbiome and related metabolites, in human plasma and urine. Through development of advanced computational methods, this approach now provides an affordable platform for precision nutrition and medicine, including biomonitoring of diet, dietary supplements, personal use products and environmental chemical exposures. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed research articles and these papers have been cited more than 60,000 times.