Jacob Barlow
Senior Associate at Foresite Labs
Worcester, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2024 - Current
Foresite Labs is a biotechnology company.
Senior Associate, Life Sciences Research
2023
Associate, Life Sciences Research
2021 - 2023
Foresite Capital is a healthcare and life sciences investment firm.
Graduate Student
2017 - 2021
Bioengineering PhD program: Developed quantitative sequencing methodologies and data analysis techniques to enhance microbiome based discoveries and clinical translation. Worked on preclinical and clinical applications connected to the oral, small-intestinal, and large-intestinal microbiome with specific work on small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), Celiac Disease, and the gut-brain axis.
Fellow
2021 - 2021
Accepted to 2021 Summer Fellows Program. Active member of the tools/diagnostics team. Supported sourcing and diligence and engaged with portfolio companies. Completed individual projects on emerging diagnostic areas.
Northpond Ventures is a private equity and venture capital that focuses on science-driven projects in life sciences and technology.
Engineering Co-op
2016 - 2017
Oral drug delivery R&D from formulation design to in-vivo studies. Generated novel capsule and pill formulations of peptide drugs. Evaluated formulation designs in pig models.
Research Assistant
2013 - 2017
Worked with microfluidic droplet technology to form solid shell polymersomes for encapsulation of bacterial cells
Research Assistant
2012 - 2013
Coded estimation methods for transport properties of combustion reactions in python for the software RMG in Professor Richard West's Lab.
Bioinformatics Co-op
2015 - 2015
Designed high throughput RNA sequencing methodology from sample prep to sequence analysis. Automated sequence identification and analysis from mixed samples through python scripts.
Research Assistant
2014 - 2015
Worked with phage display to discover cancer target specific peptides to be used with PET imaging. Grew and injected tumor cells into mice for bio-distribution studies. Progressed software used alongside an endoscopy to improve detection rates.
Laboratory Technician
2013 - 2013
Performed enzymatic digestion studies to determine effect of sonication on chemical kinetics. Utilized LC-MS to quantitate protein digestions.
Programmer
2012 - 2012
Converted raw mass spectrometry output files into summary reports to send back to companies. Also created an inventory and reagent database including barcode searches. Used Excel VBA.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2017 - 2021
Bachelor's degree
2012 - 2017
Bachelor's degree
2012 - 2017