American chemist and academic
Sarah Delaney is an American chemist who is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Brown University. Her research investigates DNA damage and how it is related to human disease.
Early life and education.
Delaney was an undergraduate student at Middlebury College, where she majored in chemistry, researching cisplatin anti-cancer analogs. She moved to the California Institute of Technology for graduate research, where she worked alongside Jacqueline Barton on the role of DNA in charge-transfer reactions. In particular, she investigated whether the helical stack of base pairs in the double helix impact charge transport.
Research and career.
After her PhD, Delaney was appointed a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow with John Essigmann at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied the mutagenicity of oxidized guanine lesions. 
Delaney has studied how DNA damage is related to human disease. At Brown University she serves as a professor of chemistry. In 2019. she was made director of graduate studies, and she implemented peer mentoring and regular advisor meetings for first year students, a journal club, a coffee hour and a weekly colloquium. She was made senior associate dean of academic affairs for the graduate school in 2022.
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