Sara Sawyer

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 located in Boulder, Colorado.

Her research focuses on animal viruses that infect humans, including HIV-1, and the evolution of the immune system.

[2] Sawyer was a postdoctoral fellow with Harmit Malik and Micheal Emerman at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA.

[5] She analyzed COVID test samples collected from students and staff at the University of Colorado Boulder between August and November 2021.