Sara supports early-stage scientist-founded companies using engineering biology in the UK, Europe and elsewhere, to identify and protect their IP, and come up with a solid IP strategy.

These companies operate across all sectors, including food, therapeutics, agritech, materials, chemicals and oil manufacture.

Sara is highly proactive in the engineering biology community, being appointed to the UK Government’s DSIT Engineering Biology Steering Group, in addition to being the vice chair role of the Bioindustry Associations’ Engineering Biology Advisory Committee (EBAC), co-founding the Women in Synthetic Biology and East Midlands based BioAmass networks, as well as mentoring on a number of different programmes.