Nicholas S. R. Sanderson

Department of Biomedicine,
Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB),
University Hospital Basel and University of Basel
Basel | Switzerland

Nicholas Sanderson is a basic research scientist working on autoantibody-driven neurological diseases. He completed his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin, working on the molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain. His postdoctoral training in neuroimmunology was in the group of Pedro Lowenstein at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the University of California at Los Angeles. In 2012 he moved to Basel in Switzerland to join the group of Tobias Derfuss working on autoimmune diseases of the nervous systems, with a particular focus on multiple sclerosis. Since 2017 he is a project leader at the University of Basel and is working to understand the origins and pathomechanisms of autoantibodies, using myasthenia gravis as a model autoantibody-driven diesease.