Sara Sawyer

Dr. Sara Sawyer is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a member of the BioFrontiers Institute, started by Dr. Leslie Leinwand and Nobel laureate Tom Cech. She has received national and international prizes in virology. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Barack Obama at the White House. She serves as a senior editor at the journal eLIFE and as a government consultant on the topic of pandemic preparedness. In 2020, she co-founded Darwin Biosciences, an infectious disease diagnostics company in Boulder. Her research focuses on animal viruses that jump to humans.