Prof Sander is Head of the Computational Biology Centre at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre and is visiting Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Oslo. He previously worked as Chief Information Science Officer with Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Prior to this, Sander worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute, a branch of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) during which he was involved in setting up the Department of Biocomputing at EMBL Heidelberg, and co-founded EMBnet, a network for molecular biologists in Europe. Sander is scientific advisor to IBM Corp.'s Deep Computing Initiative and the German Human Genome Project. He has a Ph.D in Theoretical Physics.