Sara graduated from Princeton University in 2014 with a degree in Chemistry. She is currently an MD-PhD student in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) MD Program. For her undergraduate thesis, she investigated the thermodynamics of central carbon metabolism under the guidance of Professor Joshua Rabinowitz. She then spent the 2014-2015 academic year studying the regulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system with Professor Aaron Ciechanover at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. In the Sharpe lab, she researched the evolution of the T-cell response to immunotherapy in melanoma.