Daniel Ives is the scientific founder who first discovered the gene shifting targets upon which the Shift drug discovery platform is based. Daniel graduated from Imperial College with a degree in biochemistry in 2009. He gained his PhD in 2013 working at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge. He carried out his post-doctoral studies under Ian Holt at the National Institute of Medical Research in Mill Hill, now part of the Crick Institute. Daniel is the named inventor on UK patent application 1900697.2 relating to methods of novel treatment of impaired mitochondria.