Sarah Rowland-Jones

Sarah Rowland-Jones is a British physician who is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford. She works on immune responses to HIV infection. She has focussed her research on problems caused by HIV in Africa, with a hope to create a successful HIV vaccine. She is the former president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Early life and education Rowland-Jones was a medical student at the University of Cambridge. She was a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford, where she specialised in infectious diseases. She was a junior doctor in London during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and became interested in HIV infection. Rowland-Jones returned to the University of Oxford where she was made a Medical Research Council Fellow. Her research considered immune response to HIV infection. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000.

Rowland-Jones was made Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine in 2001. The centre coordinates research in tropical medicine in low-income countries. She moved to The Gambia in 2004, where she oversaw research in the MRC Laboratories of The Gambia. She started working on HIV-2 as a model of attenuated HIV infection, and the role this may play in infant immune response. She holds a joint position in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Sheffield.

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