Sarah Rothberg Greytak, Ph.D.
Dr. Sarah Greytak is a Curator of the Biospecimen Research Database. She joined the project in July 2010. Dr. Greytak participates in literature mining, curation, and meta-analysis. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a minor in chemistry. While earning her Ph.D. in biology from Boston University, she investigated the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on estrogen signaling in a fish model. After completion of her PhD, Dr. Greytak spent four years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center investigating transcriptional changes in heart failure. Dr. Greytak has experience in scientific writing and editing, human genotype analysis, and RNA and protein expression analysis in human tissues, cell-lines, and model organisms.
Selected Publications
- Greytak SR, Engel KB, Hoon DSB, et al. Evidence-based procedures to improve the reliability of circulating miRNA biomarker assays. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2023;62(1):60-66. Published 2023 May 3. doi:10.1515/cclm-2023-0131
- Li J, Greytak SR, Guan P, et al. Formalin Fixation, Delay to Fixation, and Time in Fixative Adversely Impact Copy Number Variation Analysis by aCGH. Biopreserv Biobank. 2023;21(4):407-416. doi:10.1089/bio.2022.0036
- Greytak SR, Engel KB, Parpart-Li S, et al. Harmonizing Cell-Free DNA Collection and Processing Practices through Evidence-Based Guidance. Clin Cancer Res. 2020;26(13):3104-3109. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-3015
- Greytak SR, Engel KB, Zmuda E, et al. National Cancer Institute Biospecimen Evidence-Based Practices: Harmonizing Procedures for Nucleic Acid Extraction from Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissue. Biopreserv Biobank. 2018;16(4):247-250. doi:10.1089/bio.2018.0046
- Greytak SR, Engel KB, Bass BP, Moore HM. Accuracy of Molecular Data Generated with FFPE Biospecimens: Lessons from the Literature. Cancer Res. 2015;75(8):1541-1547. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-2378
Education
- Ph.D. Boston University, Boston, MA
- B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA