Kathryn Marie Jones, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Email

kathrynj@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor: Pediatrics-Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at George Washington University: 04/2007 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States

PhD from Michigan State University: 08/2005 - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

DVM from Michigan State University: 05/1999 - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

BS from Michigan State University: 05/1997 - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Websites

VIICTR Publications List

Selected Publications

Kristyn Hoffman, Corey Reynolds, Maria Bottazzi, Peter Hotez, and Kathryn Jones. " Improved biomarker and imaging analysis for characterizing progressive cardiac fibrosis in a mouse model of Chronic Chagasic Cardiomyopathy " J Am Heart Assoc. 2019 Nov ;
Pubmed PMID: 31718442.
Barry MA, Versteeg L, Wang Q, Pollet J, Zhan B, Gusovsky F, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ, Jones KM. " A therapeutic vaccine prototype induces protective immunity and reduces cardiac fibrosis in a mouse model of chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection " PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 May ;
Pubmed PMID: 31145733.
April Kendricks, Stanton B. Gray, Gregory Wilkerson, Courtney Sands, Christian Abee, Bruce Bernacky, Peter Hotez, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Suzanne Craig, Kathryn Jones. " Reproductive Outcomes in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) with Naturally-acquired Trypanosoma cruzi Infection " Comp Med. 2020 Apr ;
Pubmed PMID: 32183928.
Jones K, Versteeg L, Damania A, Keegan B, Kendricks A, Pollet J, Cruz-Chan JV, Gusovsky F, Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME. " Vaccine-Linked Chemotherapy Improves Benznidazole Efficacy for Acute Chagas Disease " Infect Immun. 2018 Mar ;
Pubmed PMID: 29311242.
Seid CA, Jones KM, Pollet J, Keegan B, Hudspeth E, Hammond M, Wei J, McAtee CP, Versteeg L, Gutierrez A, Liu Z, Zhan B, Respress JL, Strych U, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ. " Cysteine Mutagenesis Improves the Production without Abrogating Antigenicity of a Recombinant Protein Vaccine Candidate for Human Chagas Disease. " Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2017 Mar 4; 13 (3) : 621-633.
Barry MA, Wang Q, Jones KM, Heffernan MJ, Buhaya MH, Beaumier CM, Keegan BP, Zhan B, Dumonteil E, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ. " A therapeutic nanoparticle vaccine against Trypanosoma cruzi in a BALB/c mouse model of Chagas disease. " Human Vacc Immunother. 2017 ;
Dumonteil E, Bottazzi ME, Zhan B, Heffernan MJ, Jones K, Valenzuela JG, Kamhawi S, Ortega J, de Leon Rosales SP, Lee BY, Bacon KM, Fleischer B, Slingsby BT, Cravioto MB, Tapia-Conyer R, Hotez PJ. " Accelerating the development of a therapeutic vaccine for human Chagas disease: rationale and prospects " Expert Rev Vaccines. 2012 Sep ;
Pubmed PMID: 23151163.