Prior to co-founding Relation Therapeutics Jake was an award-winning mathematician (G-Research prize, Lee Segel Prize) with degrees from the University of Bristol (BSc), the University of Oxford (MSc, D.Phil), and the University of Cambridge (MPhil). Jake completed his postdoctoral work at the ETH Zürich in single-cell bioinformatics, focusing on integrating his mathematical knowledge with next generation experimental techniques. Jake previously worked as Head of Bioinformatics at Empyrean Therapeutics, designing and optimizing high throughput CRISPR screens.