bis Sánchez-Serrano was born in Santiago de Veraguas, Panama. He attended the University of Panama Medical School for one year and then was awarded a prestigious scholarship by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to study genetics at Iowa State University, where he immediately joined the labs of Eric Henderson and Drena Dobbs, both of whom had recently arrived from the lab of Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2009), focusing on an initiative to isolate human telomerase RNA for further studies in cancer gene therapy. In 1994 he won a fellowship from Cold Spring Laboratory (CSHL), New York, to carry out a summer internship in the laboratory of Tim Tully, studying learning and memory in Drosophila melanogaster. He received his BS in genetics and art history from Iowa State University in 1996 and was the recipient of the Fung Award of Academic Excellence in Genetics.

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