Professor Jason Chin | Genus plc
Professor Jason Chin
Non-Executive Director
Appointed
April 2021
Committee membership
Remuneration, Nomination, Audit & Risk
Skills and experience
- Deep scientific expertise gained in academic and commercial research institutions
- Working to develop and apply methods for reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms, spanning chemistry, chemical biology and synthetic biology
- Associate Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he researches synthetic genomics
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; Trinity College, Cambridge; and the Royal Society
Current appointments
Head of the Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology; Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Constructive Biology; Non-Executive Director of the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology.
Past appointments
Positions on the scientific advisory boards of a number of companies, including Synaffix BV, where he retains an advisory role.