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Dr. Nina Jones is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She completed Ph.D. studies at the University of Toronto and obtained postdoctoral training at the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute with Dr. Tony Pawson before her recruitment to Guelph in 2006. Her research investigates fundamental mechanisms of cell communication by phosphotyrosine adaptor proteins, and she has made significant contributions in understanding how such signalling pathways become deregulated in prevalent human pathologies such as kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Dr. Jones has received numerous awards throughout her career, including a CIHR-KRESCENT New Investigator Award, an Ontario Early Researcher Award, an NSERC-University Faculty Award, and the John Charles Polanyi Prize, and she is a past member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Dr. Jones also received the inaugural Graduate Student Mentoring award in her College, as well as a Kidney Foundation of Canada Merit Award for Outstanding Community Partner, and she was named a YMCA-YWCA Woman of Distinction. Research in Dr. Jones’s lab is presently supported by CIHR, NSERC, and the Kidney Foundation of Canada.