Chonnettia Jones is an American geneticist and developmental biologist. She has served as the executive director of

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since 2022. Jones was previously the vice president of research at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and the director of Insight & Analysis at the

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Education and career

Jones is a geneticist and developmental biologist. She was a Ruth L. Kirschstein research fellow at

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where she researched developmental neurobiology while completing a Ph.D. in biochemistry, cell and developmental biology. Jones' dissertation 2005 was titled ''Molecular and functional characterization of mini-me, a dominant modifier of hedgehog in Drosophila eye development''. Her doctoral advisor was Kevin Moses. Jones was a professor at American universities before managing the

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scientific research program at the

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. She joined

in 2012 to evaluate the impact of their funded grants. In January 2016, Jones became the director of insight and analysis at Wellcome. In January 2020, Jones was announced as the vice president of research at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in

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effective on April 14, 2020. On May 9, 2022, she became the executive director of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Chonnettia Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American expatriates in England American geneticists American women geneticists Developmental biologists American women biologists Emory University alumni 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American scientists 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American biologists African-American biologists African-American women scientists