Sara Ali

Sara Ali is a Computational Scientist at Moderna, where computational biology and bioinformatics are applied to support the development of novel mRNA-based therapeutics. Moderna is a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA technologies to create vaccines and medicines that instruct the body’s cells to produce therapeutic proteins. In her role, Sara contributes to research advancing the understanding of RNA structure and function in therapeutic contexts, integrating high-throughput analyses and scalable computational pipelines. She brings expertise in RNA biology and data-driven science to cross-disciplinary teams developing cutting-edge biotechnology. She holds a PhD and Master’s in Biophysics, Structural, and Computational Biology from the University of Rochester, and a Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.