Dr Sarah Woolner

Biography

Sarah obtained her first degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh in 2000. She then went to UCL for her PhD, studying on the MRC LMCB four-year PhD programme and carrying out her thesis work in the laboratory of Paul Martin. Sarah moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006 for her first postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Bill Bement. In 2008, Sarah was awarded a Beit Memorial Fellowship to undertake a postdoctoral project in the laboratory of Nancy Papalopulu at the University of Manchester. To develop her own independent research project, Sarah was awarded a Stepping Stones Fellowship by the University of Manchester in March 2012. In July 2012, Sarah was awarded a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship to establish her own lab in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research at the University of Manchester.