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Sandra Louise Schmid (born March 7, 1958 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian cell biologist who spent the latter part of her academic career as Professor and Chair of the Cell Biology Department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Throughout her academic career, she has authored over 105 publications on the molecular mechanism and regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis and the structure and function of the GTPase dynamin and mechanisms governing membrane fission. She was the first to identify dynamin's key role in endocytosis. She is a co-founder of the journal Traffic and has been the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell, and the President of the American Society for Cell Biology. She is currently the first Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

Awards and honors
In 2020, Schmid was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Additional scientific roles
In April 2020, Sandra Schmid was named as the first Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.