Jayne is currently Professor and Head of Pharmacy and Optometry at the University of Manchester University. Prior to this she was Professor and Head of the Pharmaceutical Biophysics Group, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London and Chief Scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Jayne is a pharmacist who. in addition to working in academia, has spent time working in community, hospital and industrial pharmacy. Her research is focuses on improving the delivery of drugs and genetic material, with a special interest determining detailed the molecular architecture of the delivery systems using neutron scattering techniques. Jayne also uses neutron reflectometry to understand the interaction of drugs and genetic material with biomembranes.