Dr Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS

Senior Group Leader and former Head of Cellular Genetics 

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Sarah Teichmann was Head of Cellular Genetics from 2016 until 2024, when she moved her lab to the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

For more on the Teichmann lab’s current science, visit https://www.teichlab.org/.

This page is no longer being updated but is being maintained as a historical record of Dr Teichmann’s research at the Sanger Institute.

Sarah Teichmann is interested in global principles of protein interactions and gene expression. In particular, her research now focuses on genomics and immunity. Sarah was the Head of Cellular Genetics programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute from 2016 to 2024.

Sarah did her PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and was a Beit Memorial Fellow at University College London. She started a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001. In 2013, she moved to the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, where her group was joint between the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Sarah is an EMBO member and fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and 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.

My timeline

• Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory/Physics Dept., Cambridge University

• Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

• Principal Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory/Physics Dept., Cambridge University

• Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute & Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• MRC Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

• Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

• MRC Career Track Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK & Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

• Postdoctoral research with Prof. Dame J. Thornton CBE FRS FMedSci in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University College London on a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research

• Trinity College Research Fellowship

• Awarded PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Trinity College, Cambridge, in laboratory of Dr. C. Chothia FRS

• Awarded B.A. Biochemistry, Trinity College, Cambridge University