Dr. Eric S. Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist and a mathematician, with research interests in human genetics, mouse genetics, population genetics and computational and mathematical methods in biology. He and his research group have developed many of the tools of modern genome research— including genomic maps of the human, mouse and rat genomes in connection with the Human Genome Project and techniques for genetic analyses of complex, mulitgenic traits. He has applied these techniques to the understanding of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, renal failure and dwarfism.

Dr. Lander is a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Whitehead Center for Genome Research. Dr. Lander earned his A.B. in mathematics from Princeton in 1978, and his D. Phil. Mathematics from Oxford University 1981. In addition to his work in biology, he was also assistant and associate professor of managerial economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration during the period 1981-1990.

Dr. Lander was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1978, received the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship in 1987 for his work in genetics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1997, the U.S. Institute of Medicine in 1998, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

Dr. Lander has been awarded the Dickson Prize in Medicine, the Pasarow Prize in Cancer, the Rhodes Prize in Cancer, the Chiron Prize in Biotechnology, among many others.

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