Mark Jones

Mark Jones is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician at University Hospitals Southampton. He received his medical degree with honours from the University of Southampton. Following an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship investigating the pathogenetic role of collagen in human lung fibrosis. Through the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre he established a longitudinal cohort of patients with ILD, together with the routine biobanking of samples from all patients undergoing investigation for suspected lung fibrosis. He leads a research group investigating core determinants of fibrosis initiation and progression, from basic disease mechanisms to the development of new treatments, based on a programme of interdisciplinary research. He is also the clinical lead for the interstitial lung disease service at University Hospitals Southampton where a focus is the development of new models of care to reduce the time taken to patient diagnosis and antifibrotic treatment commencement.