Welcome to Sabrina who will join Thorens’ group on 01.03.2013.

After having completed her Bachelor’s degree in biology at Mount Holyoke College in 2002. She contributed, as a research assistant, to biochemical and biophysical characterization of the amyloid-beta protein in the laboratory of Dr. David Teplow at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston.

After this, she joined the Bioanalytical Development group at Genzyme Corporation.

From 2006 to 2013, Sabrina performed her doctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in the laboratory of Dr. Anthony Carruthers. Her dissertation focused on identification and kinetic characterization of the domain controlling accelerated exchange in human glucose transporters.