Sue Jones

Biography

Sue joined York St John in September 2014 to design the brand new Biomedical Science degree programme, curriculum and assessment strategies and lead the IBMS accreditation event / University validation events in January 2015. The Biomedical Science programme continues to grow and thrive, with the academic staff team expanding and our first series of Year 1 to Year 3 cohorts of students in 2017/18. Sue is also working with a network of local employers to expand our placement provision and has secured NHS placements in three local trusts for 2017/18 in addition to shorter placements with local employers. Sue is the Placement Tutor, overseeing both the NHS placements and industry placement provision.

Research Interest

Sue’s area of scientific research is protein folding and protein mis-folding disorders. During her PhD, Sue investigated the role of the structure of the bacterial molecular chaperone GroEL on its function. Several key residues within the large complex molecule were identified, by mutagenesis that were vital to its folding mechanism.