Sarah Amalia Teichmann

Professor Sarah Amalia Teichmann FRS FMedSci is a leading computational and experimental biologist at the University of Cambridge, where she holds a Professorship in Stem Cell Medicine and serves as Director of Research at the Cavendish Laboratory. She leads visiting research groups at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Wellcome Sanger Institute, with additional affiliations at Churchill College and the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Her research bridges protein complex evolution and single-cell immunology, developing graph theory methods for protein assembly classification and pioneering single-cell transcriptomics to study immune system dynamics. Recent work focuses on spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics disease modeling, and T cell receptor-antigen-HLA code deciphering.

Scientific awards include the EMBO Gold Medal, Colworth Medal, Lister Prize, and the FEBS EMBO Women in Science Award. She has mentored numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom became independent investigators. Her lab collaborates on projects like the Human Cell Atlas and develops tools such as CellPhoneDB.

• EMBO Gold Medal (2015)
• Colworth Medal (2010)
• Lister Prize (2011)
• Francis Crick Medal (2012)
• FEBS EMBO Women in Science Award (2023)