Thomas Carlyle Jones

President IAP 1970-1971


Biographic Profile




Born - 29 September 1912, Boise, Idaho

Academic Degrees - BS: Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 1935; DVM: Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 1935

Academic Positions - 1947 - 1951 Master in Research, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; 1957 - 1963 Clinical Associate in Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 1957 - 1968 Research Associate in Pathology, Cancer Research Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; 1957 - 1979 Associate then Consultant Staff, Pathology (Veterinary), Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; 1963 - 1971 Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston; 1967 - 1979 Associate Director for Collaborative Research, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southborough, Massachusetts; 1971 - 1979 Professor of Comparative Pathology, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts

Selected Career Highlights


  • Published (with F. M. Garner and Kurt Benirschke) "Pathology of Laboratory Animals" and many works on animal diseases/comparative pathology, cytogenetics in relation to pathology, and animal models of human disease.

  • Distinguished Member, American College of Veterinary Pathologists.

  • Associate Editor, Pathologia Veterinaria.

  • President of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (1962-1963); and Chairman (1958-1963) Council on Research, and Chairman, Advisory Board (1966-1969) of the American Veterinary Medical Association.