Brian Jones, Ph.D.

Brian Jones has more than 25 years of drug discovery experience and has led the molecular discovery behind more than 20 INDs across several therapeutic areas. Most recently he spent 11 years at Novartis, where he was head of discovery chemistry for NIBR in Cambridge, Mass. Prior to that, Brian was at Merck for 16 years, initially as director of medicinal chemistry in Rahway, N.J. and subsequently as senior director at the Neuroscience Research Centre in the UK. Brian holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Imperial College, London. He was a NATO post-doctoral fellow at Yale University.