Xaviar Jones

Xaviar Jones is a PGY-2 resident in the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He earned his MD with summa cum laude honors from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

During his postdoctoral training at Cedars-Sinai, his research focused on translating non-coding RNA therapeutics for application in cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular diseases including systemic sclerosis, heart failure, and HOCM. Furthermore, his interest in cardiovascular disease and inflammation led to further investigations in myocarditis. His work led to discoveries involving novel mechanisms of RNA therapeutics, and funding opportunities from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Furthermore, his work and contributions have been published in Nature Communications, JACC: Basic to Translational Science, Basic Research in Cardiology, etc.

His long-term goal is to bridge clinical practice and translational research involving cardiac inflammation in heart failure to advance care and improve patient outcomes.