Sarah Morton, MD, PhD

Sarah Morton, MD, PhD studied Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Michigan before obtaining her MD/PhD at the University of California, San Francisco. During her PhD in developmental biology, she studied microRNA regulation of heart development in the laboratory of Dr. Deepak Srivastava. After medical school she competed pediatrics residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program followed by neonatology fellowship in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Training Program. After her clinical training, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Christine and Jonathan Seidman at the Department of Genetics, where she trained in computational biology and human genetics.

In addition to research, Sarah co-chairs the NICU Nutrition Committee and is co-director of the Newborn Medicine Summer Student Research Program. Sarah also helps to organize the weekly Broad Medical and Population Group Primer series.