Stephan Sanders, PhD, MD

Stephan Sanders is Professor of Paediatric Neurogenetics in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford, a member of faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and an affiliate of the New York Genome Center (NYGC). He trained as a paediatrician before undertaking a PhD and Postdoctoral studies in Genetics and Bioinformatics at Yale University. In 2014, he started his lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before moving to Oxford in 2022. His group specialises in the genetics of autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders, including genomics, functional genomics, and therapeutics. This research has been key in identifying the genes underlying autism and neurodevelopmental disorders and their roles in the developing human brain. Dr. Sanders is also the Director of the MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Therapeutic Genomics, a leader of the Autism Sequencing Consortium, and directs a SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration project.