Jason is an Australian who completed a PhD in 2002 at the University of New South Wales and the Garvan Institute, Sydney, with Prof Robert Sutherland. He conducted postdoctoral work with Prof. Myles Brown at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA from 2002-2006. He joined the faculty at Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute and University of Cambridge in 2007. He is currently a Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Cambridge, the interim Director of Cancer Research UK, a Fellow at Clare College and was elected an EMBO member in 2016 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017. His lab is interested in understanding mechanisms of hormone-dependent cancer.