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Best Female Scientists

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Genetics

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Medicine

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50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Sarah E. Medland is affiliated with the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of genetics, molecular biology, and psychiatry, with a significant emphasis on the genetic underpinnings of mental health and cognitive functions.

They have contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Within these broad fields, Medland's work spans several subfields, including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics that highlight expertise in genetic associations and epidemiology, functional brain connectivity studies, bipolar disorder and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Medland include:

  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Mapping brain asymmetry in health and disease through the ENIGMA consortium, 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Medland frequently publishes in several venues, which include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • Molecular Psychiatry

The scientist has collaborated regularly with multiple co-authors, notably:

  • Nicholas G. Martin
  • Ian B. Hickie
  • Brittany L. Mitchell
  • Enda M. Byrne
  • Penelope A. Lind

Medland's academic contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science, awarded in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits

    Jian Yang;Teresa Ferreira;Andrew P Morris;Sarah E Medland

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

    Cornelius A. Rietveld;Sarah E. Medland;Jaime Lane Derringer;Jian Yang

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • A versatile gene-based test for genome-wide association studies

    Jimmy Z. Liu;Allan F. Mcrae;Dale R. Nyholt;Sarah E. Medland

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    L. Schmaal;D.J. Veltman;T.G.M. van Erp;P.G. Sämann

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland
Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jouke-Jan Hottenga
Jouke-Jan Hottenga Hamad bin Khalifa University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Dale R. Nyholt
Dale R. Nyholt Queensland University of Technology
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Gonneke Willemsen
Gonneke Willemsen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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