Eric Lander

Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute , and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama 's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . He was captain of the math team at Stuyvesant High School , graduating in 1974 and then attended Princeton University , where he graduated in 1978 as valedictorian. At the age of seventeen, he wrote a paper on quasiperfect numbers for which he won the Westinghouse Prize . He wrote his doctorate on symmetric designs at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar , under the supervision of Peter Cameron . As a mathematician he studied combinatorics and applications of representation theory to coding theory . He enjoyed mathematics but did not wish to spend his life in such a "monastic career." Unsure of what to do next, he took up a job teaching managerial economics at Harvard Business School ; he also began to write a book on information theory . At the suggestion of his brother, Arthur Lander , he started to look at neurobiology "because there's a lot of information in the brain." In order to understand mathematical neurobiology, he felt he had to study cellular neurobiology; this in turn led to studying microbiology and continued down to the level of genetics. But I'm still trying to get the genetics right". His studies introduced him to David Botstein , a geneticist working at MIT. Botstein was working on a way to unravel how subtle differences in complex genetic systems can become disorders like cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia, and even obesity. Lander then joined Whitehead Institute (1986) and later joined MIT as a geneticist. In 1987, he was given the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship . In 1990 he founded the WICGR (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research). WICGR became one of the world's leading centers of genome research, and under Dr. Lander's leadership, it has made great progress in developing new methods of analysing mammalian genomes. The Whitehead Institute has also made important breakthroughs in applying this information to the study of human variation and particularly the study of medical genetics. The WICGR formed the basis for the foundation of the Broad Institute , a transformation in which Dr. In December 2008, he was named, along with Harold E. Varmus , one of the co-chairs of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the Obama administration .

Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), former member of the Whitehead Institute , and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career to realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama 's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . [1] Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 21606349, please use with | pmid = 21606349 instead. Attention: This template ( ) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 15368656, please use with | pmid = 15368656 instead.

American mathematician Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957), a mathematician and geneticist, is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School , former member of the Whitehead Institute , and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard . He was co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama 's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . He is a 1987 MacArthur Fellow .

American mathematician (born 1957) Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist who is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School . Eric Lander is founding director emeritus of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Lander served as the 11th director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President in Joe Biden 's presidential Cabinet . In response to allegations that he had engaged in bullying and abusive conduct, Lander apologized and resigned from the Biden Administration effective February 18, 2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 (28): 11319.

American mathematician (born 1957) Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist who is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School . Lander received a MacArthur Fellowship. He founded the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research , was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project , and was the founding director of the Broad Institute .