Prof Jones, wat 'n Eredoktorsgraad vir sy werk in kankernavorsing by die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Maart 2018 gradplegtigheid sal ontvang, lewer 'n praatjie by die Fakulteit Geneeskunde en Gesondheidswetenskappe op 16 Maart 2018. ​

Prof Jones se praatjie is getiteld: 

“The Role of DNA Methylation in Health and Disease - How Stellenbosch Opened the Field of Epigenetics"

• Plek: JN de Villiers Raadsaal
• Tyd: 13h00-14h00
• Datum: Vrydag, 16 Maart 2018

Meer oor Prof Jones:

Prof Peter Jones is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Epigenetics, Van Andel Research Institute in the USA, among other things (please see document attached).  His laboratory discovered the effects of 5-azacytidine on cytosine methylation and he first established the link between DNA methylation, gene expression and differentiation. He pioneered the field of epigenetics, particularly its role in cancer, and helped develop novel therapies for cancer.  It is a little-known fact that he served as Chief Research Officer in the laboratory of Prof Wieland Gevers at the Unit for Molecular and Cellular Cardiology of Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine here at Tygerberg during the 70's.  It was also here that he made a seminal discovery (showing that an ordinary human cell which he had treated with an obscure cancer drug known as “aza-c" was beating like a heart), which would one day change the future of cancer treatment.