Jane holds B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in microbiology from University College, London. She performed post-doctoral research at UCSD in the Chemistry Department, where she was involved in cloning bacterial genes, and in the School of Medicine, where she helped to develop retroviral vectors for gene therapy.

After completing her postdoctoral fellowships, Jane spent several years at Stratagene working as a bench scientist, as liaison between engineers and biologists and in various aspects of business development.

Jane joined the UCSD TechTIPS office at the end of 1999 and has focused on licensing inventions in the life science and biomedical arena with occasional forays into engineering. In January 2007, Jane was appointed Interim Director of TechTIPS, and subsequently named Assistant Vice Chancellor for Intellectual Property in October 2007.