Anderson is also a director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives at the National Institutes of Health.

[1] In 2002, Anderson became a professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[1] In this capacity, he served on the advisory group for the UNC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program.

In September 2010, Anderson was appointed by Francis Collins as the director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives.

[1][2] Anderson has clinical experience in Internal Medicine and Hepatology and is considered among the top authorities in the world in his primary research field of tight junctions and paracellular transport.