Jason Hoyt is the Research Director at Mendeley. He holds a PhD in Genetics from Stanford University where he was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH predoctoral fellowship from 2002-2007.

Prior to joining Mendeley, he worked under Michele Calos researching human gene therapy. He developed new methods for non-viral gene delivery into mouse hematopoietic cells using the phiC31 integrase. Additionally, he used directed evolution to evolve phiC31, such that integration would occur at single, defined locations in the human genome, thus reducing potential side-effects. Also amongst his direct research advisors at Stanford were Gavin Sherlock, Anne Brunet, and Andrew Fire: 2006 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology.

While a graduate student at Stanford, Jason saw the need and opportunity to improve collaborative research through modern Internet technologies. This resulted in founding Ologeez (peer-review literature search, recommendation engine and group collaboration for academics and industry professionals), which has been featured on TechCrunch and recognized world-wide by academics.

His first programming experience: Circa 1981 at the age of five with his family's Atari 800 packing a whopping 8KB of memory and the BASIC language.

In his free time you’ll probably catch him at a small indie rock venue, daydreaming about a rock-and-roll life.