Chris Sander (scientist)
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Chris Sander speaking at ISMB in 2010
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| Born | Germany |
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Dana Farber Cancer Institute Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center Rockefeller University Cornell University Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Alma mater |
University of Berlin University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Analytic properties of bound state wave functions (1975) |
| Doctoral students | Burkhard Rost |
| Known for |
Bioinformatics Computational biology Cancer genomics |
| Notable awards | ISCB Senior Scientist Awards (2010) |
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Chris Sander is a computational biologist and chair of the Computational Biology Programme at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Recently, he moved his lab to the DFCI at Harvard.
Sander originally trained as a physicist receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Berlin in 1967. After a period studying at the University of California, Berkeley and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, he gained his PhD degree in theoretical physics from the State University of New York in 1975. His thesis was titled Analytic properties of bound state wave functions.
Sander credits his move from theoretical physics to computational biology to Fred Sanger's 1977 landmark paper in Nature, in which the nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage φX174 was published. Sander has made many contributions to the field of structural bioinformatics including developing tools such as the Families of Structurally Similar Proteins (FSSP) database and the DSSP algorithm for assigning secondary structure to the amino acids of a protein, given the atomic-resolution coordinates of that protein.
Sander has also worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute, has served as chief information officer for the biopharmaceutical company Millennium Pharmaceuticals and has been an advisor to IBM's Deep Computing Initiative, which produced the Deep Blue chess computer.
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