Dr Ross Anderson

Dr Anderson’s research is heavily grounded in the fields of molecular and cellular biology. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, within the MRC Human Genetics Unit, where he examined the role of RNA-binding proteins in the regulation of mRNA translation. Following the completion of his postgraduate studies he accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Cape Town (2011), within the UCT/MRC Research Group for Receptor Biology, where he became interested in the physiologically and therapeutically important G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily. In 2014 he moved to the University of Pretoria, to help establish the Centre for Neuroendocrinology (CNE), and in 2017 was appointed as a lecturer within the Department of Physiology. His current research merges his postgraduate, and postdoctoral research interests, focusing on the regulatory mechanisms that govern the expression of GPCRs in health and disease, and how small molecule therapeutics can restore the expression and function of inactivating variants of GPCRs.