Associate Professor Cheryl Jones
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Associate Professor
C29 - Children's Hospital Westmead |
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Research interests
Associate Professor Jones is Sub Dean Research for the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health and a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, where she is head of the Centre for Perinatal Infection Research, Her main research interests are in the field of childhood infectious diseases, in particular the mother to child transmission of viruses.
These include the epidemiology of perinatal herpesvirus infections (HSV, CMV), the effect of age on newborn immune response to viruses, the role of dendritic cells, and regulatory T cells in the immunopathogenesis of viral infections.
Current national competitive grants*
2009
Mechanisms of disease in Bacterial meningitis
Hunt N, Ball H, Jones C, McGregor I
NHMRC Project Grants ($453,000 over 3 years)
In vivo studies of HSV infection of the skin
Jones C, Weninger W
NHMRC Project Grants ($402,750 over 3 years)
2008
The effect of age on regulatory T cell control of the innate and adaptive antiviral immune response
Jones C, Cunningham A, Alexander S
ARC Discovery Projects ($318,000 over 3 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney