
Relation Therapeutics is an end-to-end biotech company focused on developing transformational medicines by leveraging high-resolution biology, machine learning, and clinical insights. Their core technology, the Lab-in-the-Loop, integrates single-cell analysis, genomics, and machine learning to understand human biology and discover therapies for devastating diseases. The company, founded in January 2020, has secured significant funding, including a $60M seed round and a strategic partnership with GSK, and is actively seeking world-class talent across biology, machine learning, and drug discovery.

Relation Therapeutics is an end-to-end biotech company focused on developing transformational medicines by leveraging high-resolution biology, machine learning, and clinical insights. Their core technology, the Lab-in-the-Loop, integrates single-cell analysis, genomics, and machine learning to understand human biology and discover therapies for devastating diseases. The company, founded in January 2020, has secured significant funding, including a $60M seed round and a strategic partnership with GSK, and is actively seeking world-class talent across biology, machine learning, and drug discovery.
What they do: End-to-end biotech using single-cell multi-omics, functional assays and machine learning to discover medicines
Founding: Founded Jan 2020 by Charles Roberts, Benjamin Swerner, and Jake Taylor-King
Funding signal: Multiple seed rounds including a $35M seed announced Mar 14, 2024 and larger seed activity through 2024–2025
Headquarters: Regent's Place, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BG, UK
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Human-focused drug discovery for complex diseases (early indication work includes osteoporosis).
2019
Biotechnology Research
35000000
Seed round announced Mar 14, 2024
25000000
Reported $25M round in June 2022
Seed led by Magnetic Ventures (July 2021) per company timeline
“DCVC, Magnetic Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Firstminute Capital, NVentures, ARK Investment Management, Deerfield Management, NVIDIA, Hitachi Investments, Ark Invest”
About Relation We are an end-to-end biotech developing transformational medicines, with technology at our core. Our ambition is to understand human biology in an unprecedented way; discovering therapies that will treat some of life's most devastating diseases. We leverage single-cell multi-omics directly from patient tissue, functional assays and machine learning to drive disease understanding, from cause to cure.
We are committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. We strive to create an interdisciplinary workplace that cultivates innovation through collaboration, and we empower each of our team members to do their best work and develop to their highest potential.
By joining Relation, you will be part of an exceptionally talented team, you’ll have extraordinary leverage to push the field of drug discovery, and you’ll help us shape our culture and strategic direction. Ultimately, your impact will be felt in patients’ lives.
The opportunity Cellular and functional biology are central to Relation’s ability to validate targets, interrogate mechanisms of action, and generate the evidence required for programme progression. As part of the proposed new Discovery structure, Relation proposes for a Senior Director, Functional Biology & Cellular Assays to lead all cell-based experimental strategy, innovation, and delivery across the organisation.
This role requires scientific, strategic, and people leadership, overseeing a team of assay specialists and functional biologists, with responsibility for developing robust cellular systems, mechanistic assays, and functional readouts that directly support programme decision-making. Assay teams are deployed to internal and partnered programmes, and this role will ensure scientific excellence, reproducibility, and strategic prioritisation across all projects.
The Senior Director, Functional Biology & Cellular Assays will lead interdisciplinary matrix teams, drive assay strategy, and ensure that cellular biology insights are tightly integrated with profiling, translational science, and computational outputs across Relation’s discovery engine. It will be responsible for shaping Relation’s functional biology and assay capabilities and directly influence the scientific success of programmes across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities Functional Biology Strategy
Cellular Assay Leadership
Cross-Functional Scientific Integration
Programme Deployment
Scientific Rigor & Evidence Generation
Leadership & Influence (Line & Matrix Leadership)
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Join us in this exciting role where your contributions will have a direct impact on advancing our understanding of genetics and disease risk, supporting our mission to get transformative medicines to patients. Together, we're not just doing research; we're setting new standards in the field of machine learning and genetics. The patient is waiting!
Relation Therapeutics is a committed equal opportunities employer. RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Please note that Relation Therapeutics does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Resumes should not be forwarded to our job aliases or employees. Relation Therapeutics will not be liable for any fees associated with unsolicited CVs.