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Professor of Immunology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
R. Brad Jones, PhD, is Professor of Immunology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases. His research focuses on harnessing innate and adaptive cellular immune responses to reduce or eliminate persistent HIV reservoirs and achieve sustained remission without antiretroviral therapy. His laboratory identified cell-intrinsic resistance to cytotoxic T cells as a contributor to HIV persistence and is defining and overcoming mechanisms that enable infected cells to evade immune clearance. His work spans mechanistic studies of HIV reservoirs, preclinical models, and clinical immunotherapy. Dr. Jones received his PhD in Immunology from the University of Toronto and completed postdoctoral training at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. He serves as a principal investigator of the NIH-funded Martin Delaney REACH collaboratory.