Angus Jones
Associate Professor/Honorary Consultant Physician
University of Exeter Medical School
London
Biography
I am a clinician scientist who combines research in diabetes with work as a consultant physician in the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Trust. My research interests are in precision approaches to the management of diabetes, with a focus on practical approaches that can impact clinical practice now or in the near future. This includes approaches to improving clinical classification of diabetes, both through optimising use of classification biomarkers such as C-peptide and islet autoantibodies, and through development of prediction models to combine clinical features and biomarkers to guide diabetes classification and treatment. This work has informed national and international guidance in this area. Additional interests include developing stratified approaches to treatment of type 2 diabetes and, as part of my work with the University of Exeter NIHR Global Health Group, approaches to effective diabetes diagnosis, monitoring and classification in low resource settings.
Research Interest
I have worked with colleagues in Exeter to develop practical inexpensive approaches to measuring insulin secretion using a test called C-peptide, and show that these approaches can be used to assist classification and treatment of diabetes. Our work in this area, together with our related work demonstrating that misclassification of diabetes is common, has contributed to the widespread up-take of C-peptide testing in clinical care to confirm diabetes subtype and treatment requirements.