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Eric Lander
Academic
1957 –
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Who is Eric Lander?
Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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. In 2013 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work.
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- Born
- Feb 3, 1957
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Eric Steven Lander
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- Princeton University
- Stuyvesant High School
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thinking Machines Corporation
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on July 23, 2013
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