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Dean P. Jones
 Dean Jones''' is an American scientist, educator and thought leader in biomedical and environmental research. He is Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Director of the Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). His research career has focused on redox biology, metabolism and mechanisms of cell death. His pioneering research to map intracellular gradients of oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, ATP and pH in mammalian cells provided a foundation for later discovery of kinetic limitations in thiol/disulfide systems. He elaborated an article, “The Redox Code” together with Helmut Sies, providing central principles for an organism, defined by a genetic code, to organize bioenergetics, metabolism and macromolecular structure to utilize environmental resources and defend against environmental challenges. The redox code complements the genetic code in the molecular logic of life. His current research extends these concepts to practical approaches to understand human exposures and cumulative effects, termed the exposome, and develop understanding of exposure memory systems that impact healthy aging and chronic disease.

Biography
Jones studied chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana, graduating with honors in 1971. He completed his Ph.D. in medical biochemistry under the direction of Howard S Mason, Ph.D., at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, in 1976, studying the biochemistry of hypoxia. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow in nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York from 1976-77. In 1977, he moved to Stockholm, Sweden to study molecular toxicology and the antioxidant glutathione with Sten Orrenius, M.D., Ph.D., at the Karolinska Institute. In 1979, he joined the Department of Biochemistry as Assistant Professor at Emory University, with promotion to Associate Professor in 1985 and to Professor in 1990.

Academic Career
Jones has received numerous awards and recognition for his research. In 1984, he received the Albert E Levy award for his research on underlying mechanisms contributing to oxygen gradients in cells. In 1997 he was a recipient of a Nobel fellowship to study apoptosis at the Karolinska Institute. He received the Oxygen Club of California Science and Humanity prize in 2008, the R. Wayne Alexander Excellence in Research Accomplishment Award in 2013, the Society of Toxicology Mechanistic Toxicology Career Achievement Award in 2014 and the Jarrow Health Sciences Prize in 2014. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, American Institute for Cancer Research, Office of Naval Research, the Woodruff Foundation and the Georgia Research Alliance. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific papers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/dean.jones.1/collections/50283607/public/). According to google scholar, his research has over 42,000 citations in the scientific literature, including 2 papers with over 1000 citations, 9 papers with over 500, and an H-index of 103.