Sandra has worked at Brighton and Sussex Medical School since November 2009. Her research strives to understand the regulation of innate immune signalling in both health and disease. She completed her undergraduate degree in Human Physiology followed by a PhD investigating the role of annexins in cardiovasular disease at University College London. Sandra then spent a year working on ApoE receptor signalling at the Royal Free Hospital in London before moving to the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Imperial College London to work on toll-like receptors in rheumatoid arthritis. Sandra has continued working on rheumatoid arthritis at BSMS and expanded her research to include the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus. She was director of the Brighton Muscloskeletal Research Center from 2013-2017 and was a member of the British Society of Rheumatology Heberden Committee from 2016-2020. In 2014, Sandra was awarded the British Society of Rheumatology ‘Garrod Prize’ for her contribution to rheumatology.