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Dr Richard P O Jones

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Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science

Richard is Course Director and Admissions Tutor for the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)-accredited MSc in Biomedical Science by distance learning. He also contributes teaching to the MSc in Applied Bioscience. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Richard’s research interests include proteins and biomedicine.

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Faculty:
Faculty of Science and Engineering
School:
Life Sciences
Location:
Cambridge
Research Supervision:
Yes
Background

Before joining ARU in 2013, Richard completed four Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at Yale University (USA) and at the universities of Leeds, Manchester and York. In addition, he has held research positions at Zeneca Pharmaceuticals and at the British Petroleum Company Sunbury Research Centre.

Research interests

Richard’s research interests include biochemical, biophysical and bioinformatic studies of extracellular matrix and membrane proteins (retinoschisin, fibulin 5, fibronectin, collagen I, integrins, fibrinogen, bacterial surface proteins, oxacillin-hydrolysing proteins and toll-like receptors (TLRs)) implicated in antibiotic resistance and human eye, skin and vascular diseases.

Richard collaborates with Grisha Pirianov (ARU) on a project on TLR4. Richard is also interested in biomedical research through collaborations with Temple Evoegbulem (Brown University Health-Rhode Island Hospital, USA), Maggie Gentry (University of Cambridge) and Havovi Chichger (ARU).

Richard supervises Maricea Comacho’s Professional Doctorate on pathology laboratory accreditation in Guyana.

Areas of research supervision

As leader of the Masters Project module, Richard co-supervises students’ projects that are performed in NHS hospital pathology laboratories in the four main specialisms: cellular pathology, clinical biochemistry, haematology and microbiology. These studies often use samples obtained from patients with the aim of improving laboratory services.

Teaching

MSc Biomedical Science

  • Module Leader for Moving towards Mastery
  • Module Leader for General Pathology
  • Module Leader for Research Methods in Biomedical Science
  • Module Leader for Introduction to Management in Biomedical Science
  • Module Leader for Biomedical Specialisms 1: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis
  • Module Leader for Biomedical Specialisms 2: Diagnostics and Treatment
  • Module Leader for Masters Project

MSc Applied Bioscience

  • Contributes to Professional and Ethical Practice
  • Contributes to Contemporary Medical Diagnostics
Qualifications
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University (2014)
  • MB ChB in Medicine and Surgery, University of Leeds School of Medicine (2001).
  • PhD in High Resolution and In Vivo NMR Spectroscopy, University of Manchester Department of Chemistry and Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Department of Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Research (1994)
  • BSc (First Class Honours) in Chemistry and Molecular Physics, University of Nottingham (1990)
Memberships, editorial boards
  • Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University
  • Member, Biochemical Society and Local Ambassador for ARU
  • Editorial Board Member, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (MSSP, Elsevier)
Selected recent publications

Palmer, C., Facchini, F., Jones, R. P. O., Neumann, F., Peri, F., Pirianov, G., 2021. Synthetic glycolipid-based toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) antagonists negatively regulate TRIF-dependent TLR4 signalling in human macrophages. Innate Immunity, 27(3), pp. 275-284. doi: 10.1177/17534259211005840.

Ramsay, E. P., Collins, R. F., Owens, T. W., Siebert, C. A., Jones, R. P. O., Roseman, A. M., Wang, T., Baldock, C., 2017. 5N6W Retinoschisin R141H Mutant. Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank.

Ramsay, E. P., Collins, R. F., Owens, T. W., Siebert, C. A., Jones, R. P. O., Wang, T., Roseman, A. M., Baldock, C., 2016. Structural analysis of x-linked retinoschisis mutations reveals distinct classes which differentially effect retinoschisin function. Human Molecular Genetics, 25(24), pp. 5311-5320. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddw345.

Recent presentations and conferences

Recent presentation
Jones, R. P. O., 26 June 2026. Constructing a doctoral thesis using a mix of methods. ARU (Science & Engineering) Professional Doctorate Programme Workshop, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.

Recent conferences
Attends the ARU Faculty of Science and Engineering Annual Research and Scholarship Conference.

Media experience

Jones, R. P. O., May 2020. ARU biomedical science students run tests for covid-19 in three different hospitals. FIRST - Faculty of Science & Engineering Magazine, ARU. Issue: Spring, pp. 1-2.

Outreach/public talks
Jones, R. P. O., 19 November 2025. Invited talk on the ARU MSc Biomedical Science by Distance Learning. NHS England East of England Regional Pathology Partnership Forum, United Kingdom.