Eric Lander
Eric Lander · Science & Medicine
Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.
1957, Brooklyn, New York, USA
United States (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Broad Institute)
Eric Lander is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.
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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Geneticist who was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project.
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