My pronouns are he/him
Jacob is a second year DPhil student on the Wellcome Trust Chemistry in Cells programme. Before starting his DPhil, Jacob read for an MSci Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) at Durham University, graduating in 2021. Jacob is passionate about rational drug discovery and chemical biology. Supervised by Prof. Timothy Walsh (Oxford Ineos Institute, Department of Biology) and Dr. Thomas Lanyon-Hogg (Department of Pharmacology), Jacob designs and tests new antimicrobial agents with novel mechanisms of action. These compounds are designed to overcome and reduce resistance and help to combat the rapidly developing problem of antimicrobial resistance.
