Eric Lander Biography

Eric Lander is the founding director and serves as a core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. One of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project he and his colleagues have a long-standing interest in applying genomics to understand the molecular basis of human physiology and disease.
Over the past 15 years Lander and his colleagues have created many of the key tools of human genomics and have applied these tools to pioneer new ways to understand the basis of diseases including cancer diabetes and inflammatory diseases. The work includes mapping and sequencing of the human mouse and other genomes; understanding the functional elements encoded in genomes through comparative analysis; understanding the genetic variation in the human population and its relationship to disease susceptibility; understanding the distinctive cellular signatures of diseases and of response to drugs; understanding gene regulation; and understanding the mutations underlying cancer.
Lander was an assistant and associate professor of managerial economics at the Harvard Business School from 1981 to 1990. He has been on the MIT faculty since 1989 and the Harvard faculty since 2004. He is currently a professor of biology at MIT and professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School. In 1990 he founded the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research which was a flagship of the Human Genome Project and became part of the newly founded Broad Institute in 2003.

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