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Eric Lander

Who

Eric Lander · Science & Medicine

What

Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.

When

1957, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Where

United States (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Broad Institute)

Biography

Eric Lander is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.

How & why

Lander was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project, developing the mapping and computational methods that made sequencing the human genome possible. Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, he trained as a mathematician before turning to genomics and founding the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His work launched the genomic era of medicine.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

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Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.

1957

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology