Mateo Sanchez

Dr Mateo Sanchez is a genetic engineer and chemical biologist with a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He currently has his own laboratory at Cambridge University, which focuses on researching age-related DNA repair mechanisms and possible future treatments for age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia. Prior to launching his lab, Dr Sanchez was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University, where he focused on genetic engineering, as well as Imperial College London, where he researched artificial chromosomes and synthetic genomes. www.mateosanchezlab.com