Jacob (Jake) Rubens, Ph.D., joined Flagship Pioneering in 2015 and is a Senior Principal. He is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and works as part of a venture-creation team, founding and growing companies based on new biotechnology.
At Flagship, Jake co-founded Sana Biotechnology and Tessera Therapeutics, and launched Kaleido Biosciences. Jake is the Chief Innovation Officer and founding Chief Scientific Officer at Tessera, where he led research from 2018 through 2021. Previously, Jake was the Head of Innovation at Cobalt Biomedicine, where he co-invented and developed the company’s Fusosome platform prior to its merger with Sana Biotechnology.
