Dr. Sara Holland

Sara is a Partner and Patent Attorney at Potter Clarkson with an academic background in microbial molecular biology.  She specialises in advising and working with biotech start-ups, primarily in the industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology space.  She is deeply involved in the ecosystem, sitting on a number of committees in these areas, including the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum and the Bioindustry Association’s Engineering Biology Advisory Committee in the UK, and alongside Liz Fletcher at the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation  Centre and Fiona Mischel at SynBioBeta, co-founded the Women in Synthetic Biology network.