Eric Lander

Life

Lander acquired in 1978 a Bachelor in Mathematics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey in 1981 and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. In 1981 he received a PhD Student ( Assistant Professor, later Associate Professor ) for managerial economics at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1986 Lander was also a member of the local Whitehead Institute and joined in 1990 as a professor of biology at the location in the same city the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he founded the Whitehead / MIT Center for Human Genome Research, from the turn of 2003, the Broad Institute emerged as a joint project of Harvard and MIT. Lander has also been professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.

In 2008 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a division of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Work

Lander has contributed significantly to the "revolution in genomics research." He developed his research group genome maps for mapping of genes in the genome and automation techniques for genetic analysis. Co-founded and led by him the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical research has identified many human genes and provided the data of the global scientific community. Lander and his institute had a leading share of the human genome project in the world.

Awards (selection)

Honorary doctorates from the following universities: Columbia University, University of Lund, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Writings

  • Symmetric designs - to algebraic approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [ua ] 1983, ISBN 0 - 521-28693 -X
  • Editor Michael S. Waterman: Calculating the secrets of life. Applications of the mathematical sciences in molecular biology. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1995, ISBN 0-309-04886-9
1957 Biologist Princeton (New Jersey) Cambridge (Massachusetts) National Academy of Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences Albany Medical Center Prize Dan David Prize Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Integrated Authority File
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