Hutton Jones is a Senior Licensing Associate with the Office of Research Commercialization. He is responsible for managing technologies resulting from Texas Tech research and working with university researchers to identify good market fits for their technologies. His primary focus is in the area of life science utilizing his background in biotechnology and he directly supports researchers working at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the TTUHSC-El Paso. 

Hutton graduated from Abilene Christian University with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 2009.  Hutton also holds a master's degree in Biotechnology from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center where his research centered on generating phage-display peptide inhibitors and bacteriophage solutions for drug-resistant bacteria. He interned in the Office of Research Commercialization as a Licensing Assistant while earning his master's degree.  He then worked as a research assistant for Receptor Logic, an Abilene based technology startup that specialized in therapeutic antibodies that was spun out of the TTUHSC School of Pharmacy. 

Hutton received the Certified Licensing Professional designation in 2021.