Sarah Rowland-Jones
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Sarah Louise Rowland-Jones | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Children | 1 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The role of class I MHC molecules in the presentation of viral antigens to cytotoxic T lymphocytes. (1994) |
Sarah Rowland-Jones FRCP 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.[1]
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.[1]
