Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland. Jones conducted research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other agencies investigating mechanisms of disease progression and hematopoietic and immune determinants of central nervous system inflammation. He serves as principal investigator within an NIH-sponsored research program conducted at the Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at OHSU, the Portland VA Medical Center, and NCNM’s Helfgott Research Institute investigating behavioral neural-immune interactions involved in therapeutic responses. He has served on several federal and state grant review boards for NIH, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Oregon Partnership for Alzheimer’s Research.