Sarah Saietz
About me
PhD candidate in hESC-based treatment for retinal dystrophies in the Developmental and Regenerative Stem Cell Medicine group under the supervision of Professor Fredrik Lanner (primary supervisor), Professor Anders Kvanta, and Dr Filippo Locri (co-supervisors).
IF Foundation for Pharmaceutical Research, 28, 500 SEK. Travel grant to attend ISSCR 2025, Hong Kong, China, Jun. 2025.
Abstract Award, 500 USD. Awarded at the ISSCR 2025 Global Meeting, Jun. 2025.
KI Travel Grant 2025 (period 1), 17, 000 SEK. Travel grant to attend ISSCR 2025, Hong Kong, China, Jun. 2025.
Nordic Early-Stage Professional Abstract Award, 500 USD. Awarded at the ISCT Europe 2024 Regional Meeting, Sep. 2024.
Karin Sandqvists stiftelse, 20, 000 SEK. Travel grant to attend the European Summer School on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (SCSS2023) in Spetses, Greece, Sep. 2023.
KI travel support, KI Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, 15, 000 SEK. Travel grant to attend the course ‘Bioinformatics Analysis and Visualisation of Medical Genomics Data’ at the University of Tokyo, Mar. 2023.
Karin Sandqvists stiftelse, 5, 000 SEK. Travel grant to attend the 23rd EVER Congress in Valencia, Spain, Oct. 2022.
Research
Purpose-driven PhD candidate in Regenerative Medicine with expertise in stem cell-based therapies, GxP-compliant laboratory practices, and in vitro cell biology. Recognised for a collaborative and solutions-oriented approach to translational research and GMP process optimisation and deeply motivated by a commitment to improving patient access to safe, effective, and scalable cell and gene therapies through high-quality manufacturing and innovation.
Teaching
- Nov. 2023 – Jan. 2024: Supervisor of Eda Erbil, MSc student, Karolinska Institutet, 10-week intern
"Long-term maturation of hESC-derived photoreceptor progenitors to guide rod/cone lineage distribution"
Jan. 2023 – Jul. 2023: Co-supervisor of Willemijn Bout, MSc student, Utrecht University, 30-week intern
"Optimising directed differentiation of retinal pigment epithelial cells and photoreceptor progenitors from hPSCs"
Jun. 2023 – Jul. 2023: Research mentor, Aleksander Purik, high-school student, Rays (Research Academy for Young Scientists) – for Excellence 2023
"Validating candidate cell surface markers for the purification of hESC-derived photoreceptor progenitors"
Articles
- Article: CYTOTHERAPY. 2024;26(4):340-350Baque-Vidal L; Main H; Petrus-Reurer S; Lederer AR; Beri N-E; Bar F; Metzger H; Zhao C; Efstathopoulos P; Saietz S; Wrona A; Jaberi E; Willenbrock H; Reilly H; Hedenskog M; Moussaud-Lamodiere E; Kvanta A; Villaescusa JC; La Manno G; Lanner F
All other publications
- Conference publication: INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE. 2024;65(7)Vidal LB; Main H; Reilly H; Saietz S; Laier CVH; Efstathopoulos P; Elefante F; Jensen LB; Kragh M; Toft DB; Villaescusa JC; Christiansen MW; Kvanta AP; Markland K; Blomberg P; Lanner F
- Conference publication: CYTOTHERAPY. 2023;25(6):S170RELEASE TESTING OF GMP MANUFACTURED CELLTHRPE1 FOR TREATMENT OF DRY AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATIONVidal LB; Main H; Reilly H; Hedenskog M; Beri N; Metzger H; Saietz S; Berggren S; Holm A; Eistrand U; Wrona A; Laier CVH; Efstathopoulos P; Jaberi E; Willenbrock H; Shimizu Y; Galler G; Elefante F; Jensen LB; Nielsen K; Kragh M; Roubroeks J; Toft DB; Villaescusa J; Christiansen MW; Andre H; Kvanta A; Markland K; Blomberg P; Lanner F