Peter J. H. Jones PhD

Dr. Peter J. H. Jones is a Canada Research Chair in Functional Foods and Nutrition, and Director of the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the university where his main appointment is in the Department of Food Science with a cross-appointment in Human Nutritional Sciences. A native of Vancouver, Dr. Jones received a BSc degree in Biochemistry at the University of British Columbia. He obtained an MSc in Human Nutrition at the same institution before completing a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1985. Then, after two years with the Clinical Nutrition Research Center at the University of Chicago as a Medical Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Jones spent several years on faculty with the Division of Human Nutrition at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Jones was Director of the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University from 1994-to 1999; in addition to being a professor in the school and holding a cross-appointment in the Department of Medicine until 2005.

Currently, Dr. Jones serves as President of the Danone Institute for Nutrition in Canada and Past-President of the Canadian Society for Nutritional Science. He serves as Chairman of the Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals Board of the Vancouver-based Forbes Medi-tech group. Dr. Jones also has sat on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Health Organization, and United Nations University (FAO/WHO/UNU) Expert Consultant Panel for Energy and Protein Requirements in Human Nutrition. Dr. Jones' research interests cover cholesterol, fat, and energy metabolism. He has applied novel stable isotope methodologies to examine the response of these areas of metabolism to dietary intervention. His research group has been active in exploring the dietary determinants which control cholesterol biosynthesis absorption and turnover in humans, as well as how plant sterols act in functional foods as cholesterol-lowering agents. Dr. Jones has published over 325 peer-reviewed research articles and reviews in international journals, as well as chapters in leading nutrition textbooks.