Dr. Sarah Teichmann

Dr. Sarah Teichmann has been Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute since 2016. She earned her Ph.D. at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where she started a research group in 2001, and was a Beit Memorial Fellow at University College London. In 2013, she moved to the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, where her group was jointly part of the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Dr. Teichmann is an EMBO member and fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Her work has been recognized by a number of prizes, including the Lister Prize, Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, Royal Society Crick Lecture and EMBO Gold Medal.