Sarah Iqbal

Sarah Iqbal works at the George Institute as Research Manager in the India office and has 3+ years of experience in research administration. As a part of Research Support Services in CORE India, she assists researchers with pre-award funding processes. Sarah has a PhD in Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University where she spent 5+ years investigating the effect of vitamin D supplementation in diabetes and pancreatic cancer. She also worked briefly at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi in the chemical genetics’ lab as a postdoctoral fellow, before joining DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance in the capacity of a Grants Adviser. At the George, Sarah also looks after the global publications database as the institutes Publications Officer. She is interested in developing her capacity in science policy research.