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Eric Lander

Eric Lander
Lander in 2023
11th Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
In office
June 2, 2021 – February 18, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byKei Koizumi (acting)
Succeeded byAlondra Nelson (acting)
Science Advisor to the President
In office
January 25, 2021 – February 18, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byKei Koizumi (acting)
Succeeded byFrancis Collins (acting)
Personal details
Born (1957-02-03) February 3, 1957 (age 67)
New York City, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic[1]
SpouseLori Lander
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Wolfson College, Oxford (MSc, DPhil)
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (1987)
Dickson Prize (1997)
Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service (1998)
Max Delbrück Medal (2001)
Gairdner Award (2002)
Harvey Prize (2012)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
William Allan Award (2018)
Websitewww.broadinstitute.org/bios/eric-s-lander Edit this at Wikidata
Scientific career
InstitutionsBroad Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisTopics in Algebraic Coding Theory (1980)
Doctoral advisorPeter Cameron
Doctoral studentsJulie Segre[2]
Kenro Kusumi[3]
Manolis Kellis[4]
Erez Lieberman Aiden
Mark Daly

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.[5]

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.[6][1][7][8] 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.[9][10]

  1. ^ a b Facher, Lev (February 1, 2021). "Eric Lander Is Brilliant, Connected, and Controversial. Now Joe Biden Wants Him to 'Reinvigorate' American Science". Stat. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  2. ^ Segre, Julia (1996). Positional cloning of nude, a fork head transcription factor : genetic, physical and transcriptional maps of the region and mutations in the mouse and rat. mit.edu (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/41341.Free access icon
  3. ^ Kusumi, Kenro (1997). Positional cloning and characterization of the mouse pudgy locus. mit.edu (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/49612.Free access icon
  4. ^ Kamvysselis, Manolis (2003). Computational comparative genomics : genes, regulation, evolution. mit.edu (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/7999. OCLC 53277177. Free access icon
  5. ^ "Eric S. Lander". Broad Institute. November 23, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  6. ^ "Biden picks geneticist as science adviser, elevates position to Cabinet". PBS NewsHour. January 15, 2021.
  7. ^ Nair, P. (2011). "QnAs with Eric S. Lander". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (28): 11319. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10811319N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106996108. PMC 3136317. PMID 21606349.
  8. ^ Lander, E. S. (2004). "Eric S. Lander". Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 3 (9): 730. doi:10.1038/nrd1514. PMID 15368656. S2CID 19725860.
  9. ^ Chalfant, Morgan (February 7, 2022). "White House science adviser resigns after probe found he bullied staffers". The Hill.
  10. ^ Katie Rogers (February 8, 2022). "Biden's Top Science Adviser Resigns after Acknowledging Demeaning Behavior". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
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