Författare: Rob M. Jones

Robert M. Jones is currently Senior Director of Medicinal Chemistry at Arena Pharmaceuticals and also serve as Adjunct Faculty to the University of Mississippi, Department of Medicinal Chemistry. He has been an active medicinal chemistry researcher for the past 16 years, 13 of which have been in industry. Over the past 8 years his research has focused on metabolic diseases in particular Type 2 Diabetes. His work has led to several compounds entering or being nominated for clinical development, including a first in class GPR119 agonist for T2D. He has also been cited as an inventor of ~ 63 patents / provisional filings; and has published ~ 60 manuscripts and abstracts in the field of medicinal chemistry.