Sarah Phung

Sarah studies chemical biology, with a minor in digital humanities, at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry, with a particular interest in the pharmaceutical sciences. She is an undergraduate research assistant in the Vaisse Lab at the University of California, San Francisco, where she supports studies of how MC4R, PKA, and leptin signaling regulate obesity and metabolism. She has also conducted research in the Cate Lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute and worked in the Schepartz Lab at UC Berkeley, and she completed an R&D internship at Glacies Biome through Berkeley SkyDeck, supported by a Ru and Wu Innovation Fund scholarship. She serves on the media and publicity committee of the American Chemical Society’s Berkeley student chapter, and is a volunteer at the IIBHB.