Sara Agee Le

Sara Agee Le, PhD is VP of Global Marketing at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, having joined in July of 2021 to scale the global marketing team in line with the Company’s growth ambitions.

Sara has more than 15 years of experience growing life science companies, with a strong track record of advancing market leadership and commercialization of emerging life science brands.

Most notably, Sara served as Corporate Marketing and Communications Director for 10x Genomics, a market leader in single cell and spatial genomics. Sara joined 10x Genomics in 2016 at the first launch of the Chromium Single Cell System, and held successive roles as Head of Commercial Marketing before transitioning to lead Corporate Marketing and Communications ahead of the company’s IPO.

In addition to 10x, Sara held marketing leadership roles at Atomwise (VP of Marketing and Communications), Seegene Technologies (establishing US subsidiary in 2015), Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche Sequencing in 2014), and Advanced Cell Diagnostics (acquired by BioTechne in 2016 and launch of RNAscope brand).

Prior to working in the life science industry, Sara led the first K-8 curriculum initiative for ScienceBuddies, an award-winning non-profit organization furthering STEM literacy amongst K-12 students, parents, and teachers. She received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California Berkeley in 2004, and her BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Denver in 1997, graduating Magna Cum Laude.