Maike Sander#
| Membership Number: | 7208 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mdc-berlin.de/sander |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5308-7785 |
| X: | @msanderlab |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/maike-sander/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xPeBrw8AAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Professor, Charité, University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 - present Scientific Director, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 - present Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2012 - 2022 Director, Pediatric Diabetic Research Center, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2014 - 2022 Co-Director, Center for Engineering in Diabetes in the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2011 - 2022 Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2008 - 2011 Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2006 - 2008 Associate Professor, Dept. of Developmental & Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA
- 2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Developmental & Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA
- 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Hamburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental biology
- Diabetes
- Metabolism
- Stem cells
- Gene regulation
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Elected Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2022 Albert Renold Prize, European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) for outstanding achievements in research on the islets of Langerhans
- 2012 - 2022 Winkler Endowed Chair for Type 1 Diabetes in Honor of Alberto Hayek, M.D.
- 2020 Elected Member, Association of American Physicians
- 2019 Einstein Foundation Berlin, Visiting Fellow
- 2017 Elected Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2017 Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation
- 2011 Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation
- 2008 Grodsky Award, Basic Research Scientist Award in Diabetes Research, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- 2007 Mary Jane Kugel Award, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
