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Anders obtained his undergraduate Master’s degree in Chemistry from Oxford University in 2010. He received his PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University in 2015, where he worked with Erin O’Shea on applied systems biology approaches to understand how cells encode and transmit information regarding the dynamics of transcription factor activation. After his postdoc at UC Berkeley with Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq, where he developed new imaging approaches to dissect the dynamics of architectural proteins at single-molecule resolution in living cells, Anders joined MIT as an Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering in early 2020. His lab focuses on understanding and engineering 3D genome structure and function. He has received several prestigious awards, including the NIH K99 Pathway Independence award (2019), the NIH Director’s New Innovator award (2020), the Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research award (2021), the NSF CAREER award (2024), and the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (2024).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Anders's research focuses on understanding and engineering 3D genome structure and function.