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Maike Sander

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Maike Sander (born August 16, 1967, in Göttingen, Germany)[citation needed] is a German-American physician and scientist. She is known for her research on diabetes. Since November 2022, she has served as Scientific Director and Chair of the Board of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin,[1] making her the first woman to head one of the Helmholtz Health Centers.[2] In January 2025, she was elected Vice-President of Helmholtz Health.[3]

Education and career

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Sander was raised in Göttingen, Germany.[4] 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,[5] having previously participated in an exchange program there in 1991.[4] 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 (UC San Diego), and served as the Director of the Pediatric Diabetes Research Center from 2012 to 2022.[5] In 2022 she moved to Germany to assume the role of scientific director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.[6]

In addition to her primary appointments, Sander was Co-Director of the Center on Diabetes at the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San Diego from 2014 to 2022.[7] From 2019 to 2022, she was an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).[8][7] Since 2024, she has also held a professorship at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.[2]

Research

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Sander's research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that govern pancreatic beta cell development, function, and regeneration, with the goal of developing new treatments for diabetes.[1][9] Her work investigates how dynamic changes in gene expression, transcription factor binding,[10] and chromatin structure regulate beta cell differentiation, identity, and functional maintenance. These studies have revealed fundamental mechanisms of cell fate determination and cellular plasticity in both normal pancreatic development and the pathogenesis of diabetes.[11] More recently, her research has centered on developing platforms to generate insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from human pluripotent stem cells for therapeutic applications.[1][12]

Awards and honors

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Sander received the Grodsky Award of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in 2008[13] and became a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2011.[14] In 2017 she was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[5] and received the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation;[15] and in 2020 she was elected to the Association of American Physicians.[16] She received the Albert Renold Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in 2022.[17] She was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2024[18] and to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2025.[19] She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2025.[13]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Spielberg, Petra (2022-08-07). "Maike Sander: An der Spitze des Max-Delbrück-Centrums". Deutsches Ärzteblatt (in German). Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  2. 1 2 Kuban, Josephine; Neumann, Malte; Ahlers, Alice; Ballaschk, Martin (2023-10-19). "Sie ergründen, was uns gesund macht: Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  3. ↑ "At the helm of Helmholtz Health: Maike Sander". Max Delbrück Center. 2025-10-31. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  4. 1 2 Sinha, Gunjan (2025-10-21). "The innovator". www.mdc-berlin.de. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  5. 1 2 3 "Professor Dr Maike Sander". German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 2022.
  6. ↑ "Maike Sander named to lead the Max Delbrück Center". MDC website. 2022-06-17.
  7. 1 2 "Maike Sander". Einstein-Stiftung Berlin. 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  8. ↑ Fahrun, Joachim (2022-12-05). "Aus San Diego ins Herz der Berliner Wissenschaft". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  9. ↑ Harmsen, Torsten (2022-12-08). "Impulse aus San Diego: Maike Sander leitet das Berliner Max Delbrück Center". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  10. ↑ Taylor, Brandon-L.; Liu, Fen-Fen; Sander, Maike (2013-09-12). "Nkx6.1 Is Essential for Maintaining the Functional State of Pancreatic Beta Cells". Cell Reports. 4 (6): 1262–1275. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2013.08.010. PMC 4058003. PMID 24035389.
  11. ↑ Nguyen-Ngoc, Kim-Vy; Wortham, Matthew; Sander, Maike (2022-03-14). "Sizing up beta cells made from stem cells". Nature Biotechnology. 40 (7): 1006–1008. doi:10.1038/s41587-022-01271-9. ISSN 1087-0156.
  12. ↑ Jun, Yesl; Nguyen-Ngoc, Kim-Vy; Sai, Somesh; Bender, R. Hugh F.; Gong, Winnie; Kravets, Vira; Zhu, Han; Hatch, Christopher J.; Schlichting, Michael; Gaetani, Roberto; Mallick, Medhavi; Hachey, Stephanie J.; Christman, Karen L.; George, Steven C.; Hughes, Christopher C.W. (2025-05-20). "Engineered vasculature induces functional maturation of pluripotent stem cell-derived islet organoids". Developmental Cell. 60 (18): 2455–2469.e7. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2025.04.024. PMC 12353569. PMID 40412386.
  13. 1 2 "Sander Maike". Academy of Europe. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  14. ↑ "Maike Sander, MD". The American Society for Clinical Investigation. 2011. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  15. ↑ "Zwei Humboldt-Preisträger kommen zu Gastaufenthalten an das MDC". Max Delbrück Center Berlin (in German). 2025-09-15. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  16. ↑ "Association of American Physicians". aap-online.org. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  17. ↑ Gerrard, Kate (11 October 2022). "JDRF-funded researcher wins prestigious award at international diabetes conference". Breakthrough T1D UK. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  18. ↑ "Maike Sander elected member of the BBAW". Max Delbruck Center. 2025-09-30. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  19. ↑ "EMBO member: Maike Sander". European Molecular Biology Organization. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
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