Human Cell Atlas: Mapping one cell at a time | Dr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci | 10 November 2020

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Dr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci shares about her ambitious project to map all the cell types in the human body, in order to better understand human health and disease.

Abstract:
The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is an ambitious global initiative aiming to create a comprehensive reference map of all human cells – the fundamental units of life – as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease. Co-founded by Dr Sarah Teichmann from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK, and Dr Aviv Regev from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the US, the HCA was launched in London in 2016. The HCA’s ground-breaking approach is providing unprecedented understanding of human cells and tissue architecture in health and diseases including Covid-19 infection, cancer, respiratory and auto-immune disease.

Speaker profile:
Dr Sarah Teichmann is the Head of Cellular Genetics and Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She did her PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and was a Beit Memorial Fellow at University College London. She started a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001. In 2013, she moved to the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, where her group was joint between the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Dr Teichmann is an EMBO Member and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and her work has been recognized by a number of prizes, including the Lister Prize, Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, Royal Society Crick Lecture and EMBO Gold Medal. Most recently, Dr Teichmann was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020.