Collins Jones is the Biotechnology Industry Coordinator for the biotechnology program at Montgomery College (Germantown, MD), where he has been a professor for the past 15 years. His primary responsibility is teaching, which includes developing a curriculum that focuses on laboratory exercises relevant to the biotech industry. "I spend a great deal of time interacting with the local biotech industry to determine what needs to be included in the program," he says.
Jones began his career with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, focusing his research on cholesterol metabolism. He searched the classified ads in scientific journals and applied for the advertised positions to land his first chemistry-related job as a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health. After several years of doing metabolism research, Jones took advantage of an opportunity to move into brain imaging research, also at the National Institutes of Health. Later, he pursued his love of teaching by taking his current position at Montgomery College.
Research Description
Dr. Collins Jones is the coordinator for the Biotechnology Program at Montgomery College in Montgomery County, Maryland. In this capacity, Dr. Jones works closely with a number of Maryland biotech companies, including Bioreliance Sigma Millipore, Astra Zeneca, Lonza, GlaxoSmith Kline, and Lentigen, to develop and maintain the curricula for the Biotechnology Program. The biotechnology curriculum developed by Dr. Jones includes courses in Immunology and Biomanufacturing. Since 2005, Dr. Jones has placed over 250 students in full time jobs in the Montgomery County biotechnology industry.