Julia is Director of Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where she is responsible for strategy development, partnerships and technology translation. Her office works to drive broader academic and industry engagement needed to support the work of the Sanger Institute.

Her primary focus is partnering to advance the reach and impact of the Institute’s research within academia, commercial organisations, funders and government(s). Julia leads organisational Strategy, Funding and Impact, as well as Policy and Advocacy, Translation and Entrepreneurship, as well as the Academic Programme which oversees the Institutes PhD programme, Post-doc cohort and Faculty programme. Julia leads relations with key external strategic partners and the Open Targets initiative. Her Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Department deliver insight and impact from the Institute’s work to develop strategy, enrich Sanger’s scientific work and position the Institute nationally and internationally.

Previously Julia worked at Breakthrough Breast Cancer and WCRF. As a scientist, she was a post-doc at the Karolinska Institute Sweden and a researcher at Cancer Research UK and Queen Mary University of London.

Julia is an alumna of the Academy of Medical Sciences FLIER programme and co-Chaired the Academy of Medical Sciences/National Academy of Medicine initiative on Climate and Health.