Mark S Anderson The 13th International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society 2013

Mark S Anderson

Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. received his doctorate in immunology in 1992 and his medical degree in 1994 from the University of Chicago. He engaged in clinical training in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics from 1994 to 1998. He then went on to pursue a clinical fellowship in Adult Endocrinology at the Massachusetss General Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 1998 to 2001. He also did a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Diane Mathis and Christophe Benoist at the Joslin Diabetes Center from 1999 to 2002, after which he became an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center. In 2003, he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Diabetes Center at UCSF where he currently directs a laboratory that is focused on mechanisms of immune tolerance and the molecular underpinnings of autoimmunity. In 2009, Mark was named the Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research at UCSF and in 2013, he was promoted to Full Professor at UCSF. Mark is currently an active member of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Program in Immunology at UCSF. Dr. Anderson also serves as Director of UCSF Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program, Research Director of the UCSF Diabetes Center, and also as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the UCSF Immunology Program.