Sara Bird

Sara Bird, PhD, currently serves as a Senior Product Manager at Natera since October 2021, bringing extensive experience in product management from previous roles, including Director of Product and Operations at Viome and Vice President of Product Technology at uBiome. With a solid foundation in scientific research, Sara worked as a Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, where innovations in CRISPR-based techniques and diagnostics for pathogen detection were key contributions. Academic achievements include a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine, where expertise in viral genetics was developed, and a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the same institution. Early experience involved laboratory work and scientific communication during a gap year and undergraduate research focused on molecular cloning for plant transformation vectors.