Maike Sander

Maike Sander (born August 16, 1967, in Göttingen, Germany) is a German-American physician and scientist. She is known for her research on diabetes.

Education and career

Sander was raised in Göttingen, Germany.[1] Sander graduated with a medical degree from Heidelberg University in 1994. From 1994 to 1999, she was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco,[2] having previously participated in an exchange program there in 1991.[1] Between 1999 and 2003, she was an assistant professor at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Hamburg. She then joined the University of California, Irvine, where she served as an assistant professor and later associate professor from 2003 to 2008. From 2008 to 2022, she was a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and served as the Director of the Pediatric Diabetes Research Center from 2012 to 2022.[2] In 2022 she moved to Berlin to take serve as the scientific director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.[3]

From 2019 until 2022, Sander held the position of visiting fellow at the Einstein Foundation Berlin.[4]

Awards and honors

Sanders was elected a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2011.[5] In 2017 she was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[2] and in 2020 she was elected to the Association of American Physicians.[6] She received the Albert Renold Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in 2022.[7] She was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2024[8] and to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2025.[9]

Selected publications

  • Sander, M; Neubüser, A; Kalamaras, J; Ee, H C; Martin, G R; German, M S (1997-07-01). "Genetic analysis reveals that PAX6 is required for normal transcription of pancreatic hormone genes and islet development" (PDF). Genes & Development. 11 (13): 1662–1673. doi:10.1101/gad.11.13.1662. ISSN 0890-9369. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  • Sander, Maike; Sussel, Lori; Conners, Jennifer; Scheel, David; Kalamaras, Julie; Cruz, Filemon Dela; Schwitzgebel, Valerie; Hayes-Jordan, Andrea; German, Michael (2000-12-15). "Homeobox gene Nkx6 . 1 lies downstream of Nkx2 . 2 in the major pathway of β-cell formation in the pancreas". Development. 127 (24): 5533–5540. doi:10.1242/dev.127.24.5533. ISSN 0950-1991. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  • Wang, Gaowei; Chiou, Joshua; Zeng, Chun; Miller, Michael; Matta, Ileana; Han, Jee Yun; Kadakia, Nikita; Okino, Mei-Lin; Beebe, Elisha; Mallick, Medhavi; Camunas-Soler, Joan; dos Santos, Theodore; Dai, Xiao-Qing; Ellis, Cara; Hang, Yan; Kim, Seung K.; MacDonald, Patrick E.; Kandeel, Fouad R.; Preissl, Sebastian; Gaulton, Kyle J.; Sander, Maike (2023). "Integrating genetics with single-cell multiomic measurements across disease states identifies mechanisms of beta cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes". Nature Genetics. 55 (6): 984–994. doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01397-9. ISSN 1061-4036. PMC 10550816. PMID 37231096. Retrieved 2025-10-22.

References

  1. ^ a b Sinha, Gunjan (2025-10-21). "The innovator". www.mdc-berlin.de. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Dr Maike Sander". German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 2022.
  3. ^ "Maike Sander named to lead the Max Delbrück Center". MDC website. 2022-06-17.
  4. ^ "Maike Sander – Einstein Foundation Berlin". Einstein-Stiftung Berlin. 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  5. ^ "Maike Sander, MD". The American Society for Clinical Investigation. 2011. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  6. ^ "Association of American Physicians". aap-online.org. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  7. ^ Gerrard, Kate (11 October 2022). "JDRF-funded researcher wins prestigious award at international diabetes conference". Breakthrough T1D UK. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  8. ^ "Maike Sander elected member of the BBAW". Max Delbruck Center. 2025-09-30. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  9. ^ "EMBO member: Maike Sander". European Molecular Biology Organization. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
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