Chris Sander is Head
of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center and tri-institutional professor
at Rockefeller and Cornell Universities.
His principal research interests are in computational
and systems biology, including predictive simulations
of biological processes, integrated molecular profiling
of disease states, gene regulation by small RNAs, structural
genomics and the development of multiplex cancer therapy.
He is a leader in community efforts to create an open-source
information resource for biological pathways.
Previously, Sander served as Chief Information Science
Officer with Millennium Pharmaceuticals, as Senior Scientist
at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge,
England, as founding chair of the department of Biocomputing
at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
From 1995 until 2004 he was chief editor of the leading
journal Bioinformatics, and is now an academic editor
of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology.
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