Sarah Seton-Rogers earned her PhD in Cell Biology from Harvard Medical School, where she researched signalling pathways implicated in migration and invasion of breast cancer cells with Joan Brugge. She then worked for two years as a medical writer at a medical communications agency, focusing predominantly on clinical research in hypertension and atherosclerosis. She joined Nature Reviews Cancer as an Associate Editor in April 2006, became a Senior Editor on the journal in November 2009 and then Chief Editor in May 2014.