Alumni
Meet Sarah Grosche
- Tell me in five words who is Sarah Grosche
Curious scientist gone drug hunter.
- What made you join CeMM?
After studying genomic alterations and their impact on diseases, I wanted to learn more about other layers of transcriptional regulation such as epigenetics and metabolism. Stefan Kubicek’s lab at CeMM was a great place to do this.
- What is it about science that interests you the most?
How small units such as atoms or molecules can perform complex functions and make up a living organism. And the damage that these small units can do when they do not perform their job, for example in disease development.
- What is the best career advice you ever received, or you can give to the CeMM community?
“Not s(he) who begins but s(he) who will persevere.”
- Tell us what happened to you after you left CeMM?
I started as a Principal Scientist/Lab Head at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna currently hunting for good drug targets in oncology.
- What book do you have on your night table at the moment
The emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- What is the last song you heard?
“Hey Pippi Langstrumpf” – a children’s song my daughter enjoys listening to over and over again.
- Any message you would like to give to CeMMies or a former colleague?
Do not let anyone define who you are or what you can achieve. You write your own story.
Sarah Grosche performed her undergraduate studies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She then switched from “wet lab” to “dry lab” (Computational Biology) during her PhD studies on genome-wide association studies in allergic disorders at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Humboldt University in Berlin. For her Postdoc she joined Stefan Kubicek’s lab at CeMM and then went on to work as a lab head at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna.