Sandra Louise Schmid (born March 7, 1958, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is the first Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

In 2009, Schmid earned a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego School of Business.

[1] There, she helped develop techniques for isolating endosomes, which Mellman and colleagues had recently discovered and named.

[1] In April 2020, Sandra Schmid was named as the first Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

In 2002, she earned the University of California San Diego Athena Pinnacle Award in Biotechnology.

In 2020, Schmid was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.