Professor Jason Chin
Biography
Professor Jason Chin FRS was appointed as a non-executive director at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in April 2023.
Jason is a Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), where he is also a Head of the Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology (CCSB) and joint Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry. He is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry, a founding Associate Faculty Member in Synthetic Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and a fellow and director of studies in Biochemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is founder and CSO of Constructive Biology Ltd, which develops and applies his foundational advances in engineering biology and synthetic biology.
He was awarded the Francis Crick Prize by the Royal Society in 2009 and the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Corday Morgan Prize and the European Molecular Biology Organization’s (EMBO) Gold Medal, in 2010. He is the inaugural recipient (2011) of the Louis-Jeantet Young Investigator Career Award and in 2019 he was awarded the Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences.
Jason is in the European Patent Office Inventor Hall of Fame, a member of EMBO, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Fellow of The Royal Society.
Non-executive board member
The main responsibilities of non-executive board members are to:
- attend meetings of the departmental board, chaired by the Secretary of State
- provide over-arching strategic guidance and insight to the department