Chuck Sanders

By Leah Mann Professor Chuck Sanders Chuck Sanders, Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair of Cardiovascular Research and professor of biochemistry and medicine, has recently been promoted from associate dean for research to vice dean of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Sanders received his Ph.D. in… Read More

Lipid rafts, a component of the plasma membranes that surround all cells in the human body, are essential in regulating the membranes’ structure, among other functions. But they are hard to study because traditional biochemical methods tend to destroy them. Chuck Sanders, associate dean for research,… Read More

An editorial, written by president of The Protein Society Chuck Sanders,  appears in the October 2021 issue of the Society’s newsletter. It came to my attention that Oswald Avery is buried here in Nashville at the atmospheric Mt. Olivet Cemetery—I had been told that my Dean,… Read More

Research led by Chuck Sanders, associate dean for research in the School of Medicine Basic Sciences and  professor of biochemistry & medicine, and first-author Tucker Apgar, an undergraduate student in the Sanders Lab, compiled the first comprehensive list of genes and proteins that cause the 70 most common genetic diseases. Read More