Sandra L. Schmid

Sandra Schmid, Ph.D. is Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network. She joined in 2020, bringing her career-long focus in cell biology to guide and amplify the scientific research of Biohub’s intramural research team as well as the Investigator Program. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Schmid came to the Biohub from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW), where she held the Cecil H. Green Distinguished Chair in Cellular and Molecular Biology and served as chair of the Department of Cell Biology.

She is a leader in the scientific community whose research, published in over 150 papers, is directed toward elucidating the molecular mechanisms and regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME), characterizing the differential regulation of CME in normal and cancer cells, and analyzing the structure and function of the GTPase dynamin. She has received numerous awards, including the American Society for Cell Biology’s Women in Cell Biology Junior and Senior Career Recognition Awards, an NIH MERIT Award, and the Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences.