Presenting Author
University of Michigan
Sarah Burris-Hiday received her B.S. in Chemistry at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis where she received the Chancellor’s Scholar Award for being the top student in the School of Science. While pursuing her bachelor’s degree, she worked in the lab of Dr. Martin O’Donnell studying unnatural amino acids for orphan diseases, published in ACS Chemical Biology. Additionally, Sarah worked as an intern at Heritage Research Group as an analytical chemist primarily using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. Sarah is currently a 5th year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan. She earned an NIH institutional training grant fellowship in the Pharmacological Sciences. She works in Dr. Emily Scott’s lab investigating the protein-protein interaction between various human cytochrome P450 enzymes and their redox partner protein cytochrome P450 reductase. Sarah has presented this work at both regional and national conferences, and she has published a review article in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology on Cytochrome P450 17A1.