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After earning a PhD in Molecular Systems Biology from ETH Zurich and studying cancer metabolism as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, Sarah-Maria Fendt started an independent research group in 2013 in a joint appointment at the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium.