ProfessorRobert Sanders

Prof Sanders, undertook a BSc in Neuroscience (First Class Honours) and trained in medicine at Imperial College London. Thereafter he completed specialist training in London in Anaesthetics. During much of that period he continued to perform basic neuroscience research in the laboratory of Prof Mervyn Maze. Spurred by those discoveries, he was awarded a Medical Research Council (UK) Clinical Training Fellowship funding his PhD in Biological Sciences (Imperial College London). He subsequently did a Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London and a Neuroanaesthesia fellowship at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. Having completed training, he moved to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA as an Assistant Professor. During his 5 years there, his research attracted more than $8 million AUD in NIH (USA) funding. In 2019, Dr. Sanders was awarded the Macintosh Professorship by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK. Prof Sanders then relocated to the University of Sydney in 2020 as the Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetics.