Chris Sander is a computational biologist based at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.

Previously he was chair of the Computational Biology Programme at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] In 2015, he moved his lab to the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute[14] and the Cell Biology Department at Harvard Medical School.

[15] Sander originally trained as a physicist, receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Berlin in 1967.

[17] Sander credits his move from theoretical physics to computational biology to Fred Sanger's 1977 landmark paper in Nature,[18] in which the nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage φX174 was published.