Dr Sarah Lovelock

UKRI Future Leader Fellow

I received my PhD from the University of Manchester where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas Turner. Following my PhD, I moved to industry and took a position as a Senior Scientist at GSK, where my primary focus was engineering enzymes for use in manufacturing processes. In 2017, I moved back to academia as a BBSRC/MRC Innovation Fellow working in the lab of Dr Anthony Green. As part of this fellowship, I spent time as a visiting academic at the University of Washington in the lab of Prof. David Baker, where I learnt to use Rosetta computational algorithms to design enzymes with activities not represented in Nature. In 2020 I was awarded a Presidential Fellowship and UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, allowing me to start my own independent research group. I am currently involved in several industrial collaborations- I work with the Medicine’s Manufacturing Innovation Centre and I am co-ordinating a large consortia project with the NATA Hub aimed at Biocatalytic Manufacturing of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.