Dr. Takako I. Jones, PhD

I am an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.

I have been doing research on FSHD full-time since 2008. You may be familiar with the FSHD mouse (FLExDUX4) that I recently developed to help with therapeutic development and preclinical testing of FSHD.

In 2014 while working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, I developed a new method for epigenetic analysis of FSHD1 and FSHD2. I soon realized this would make an excellent new diagnostic method for FSHD patients.

Since that time, I have been working to improve this technology to provide an affordable and accessible FSHD diagnostic for people in the US and around the world.

I helped form MyFSHD so that we can bring this analysis to the worldwide FSHD population at little or no cost to the patients, first as a research-based test and ultimately as an accepted diagnostic.

When I have free time, I enjoy gardening, hiking and bird-watching in the Sierra Nevada, and taking care of koi and my pet flying squirrel, Rufus.