Dr. Sanders is an environmental health scientist with a background in engineering and
environmental molecular epidemiology. Her research program examines how toxic
chemical exposures and their mixtures alter early life kidney dysfunction in population-based
studies. Dr. Sanders earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and completed postdoctoral work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai. She is PI of an R00 award at the University of Pittsburgh and has founded and
directed training and education programs for postdoctoral fellows, pre-graduates and 5th
graders interested in science. Her research employs molecular epidemiology,
toxicological, and computational approaches to investigate the effects of environmental
exposures and their mixtures that may predispose susceptible populations including
pregnant women and children to poor kidney function, chronic kidney disease (CKD) or
CKD of unknown origin (CKDu).