Dr Sarah Hernandez

Dr. Sarah Hernandez is the Director of Research Programs at the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF). She carried out her postdoctoral work with Dr. Leslie Thompson at the University of California, Irvine, where she used stem cells and fruit flies to define HD-related changes that exist outside the cell, in the “extracellular matrix”. At the HDF, Sarah oversees the Foundation’s scientific research portfolio by managing the grants program, acting as the scientific liaison, and coordinating scientific programming through webinars, workshops, and conferences. Sarah enthusiastically supports the mission of the HDF, to identify the most promising research and accelerate treatments for Huntington’s disease.