Dr. Collins Jones is the coordinator for the Biotechnology Program at Montgomery College. In this capacity he works closely with a number of leading Biotechnology companies in Montgomery County including BioReliance, Human Genome Sciences and QIAGEN Sciences to develop and implement a curriculum that is current and industry relevant. The curriculum provides laboratory based instruction in proteomics, genomics, immunology, tissue culture, high throughput methods, and biomanufacturing including bioprocessing. In addition to his duties at Montgomery College, Dr. Jones serves as adjunct professor and advisor to the Biotechnology Masters Degree program offered by the Johns Hopkins University and is a consultant and facilitator for Team Business USA. He is also a co- founder of TechnoVisions, a company dedicated to creating multimedia resources for the Biotechnology community.

Prior to his appointment at Montgomery College, Dr. Jones spent almost ten years as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. During his tenure at NIH he first investigated the relation between hepatic drug metabolism and liver tumor promotion at the National Cancer Institute. Subsequently he was awarded a National Research Council grant and assisted in the development of an in- vivo real time imaging method to measure receptor stimulated phospholipid-mediated signal transduction in the brain at the National Institute of Aging, a project that has since moved into human trials. He received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and a BS in Biochemistry with a mathematics minor from Albright College.