1. Sarah Amalia Teichmann was born on 15 April 1975 and is a German scientist, the former head of cellular genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute.
16 Facts About Sarah Teichmann
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Sarah Teichmann serves as director of research in the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, and is a senior research fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sarah Teichmann went on to study the Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge and was awarded a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996.
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In 2013 Sarah Teichmann was appointed a joint position at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute.
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Since 2016 Sarah Teichmann has served as the head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the EBI.
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Sarah Teichmann's research investigates gene expression and protein complex assembly using both wet laboratory and computational biology techniques.
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Sarah Teichmann's research has been funded by the European Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
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Sarah Teichmann was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2015.
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Sarah Teichmann is Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and has made major contributions to biology over the past 15 years.
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Sarah Teichmann represents a new breed of scientists at the interface between computational and experimental molecular biology.
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Sarah Teichmann has been an activist for women's careers in science through enabling scientists in families to advance their careers while working part-time.
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Sarah Teichmann was elected an ISCB Fellow in 2016 by the International Society for Computational Biology.
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In 2020, Sarah Teichmann was recognised on The Times 'Science Power List' for her work on the Human Cell Atlas and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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In 2023 Sarah Teichmann was the winner of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies EMBO Women in Science Award.
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Sarah Teichmann is the co-author of the children's language education novel Teenage Detectives, which she wrote as a teenager together with her mother Dr Virginia Sarah Teichmann, an English-language university lecturer in Karlsruhe.
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In 2022, Sarah Teichmann collaborated in the production of an experimental film Constellations, which was produced by her sister, artist Esther Sarah Teichmann, and visual artist Christopher Stewart as an exploration of the Human Cell Atlas.