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
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Kei Koizumi (acting)
Succeeded by	Alondra Nelson (acting)
Science Advisor to the President
In office January 25, 2021 – February 18, 2022
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Kei Koizumi (acting)
Succeeded by	Francis Collins (acting)
Personal details
Born	Eric Steven Lander (1957-02-03) February 3, 1957 (age 68) New York City, U.S.
Political party	Democratic[1]
Spouse	Lori Lander
Education	Princeton University (BA) Wolfson College, Oxford (MSc, DPhil)
Awards	MacArthur 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)
Website	www.broadinstitute.org/bios/eric-s-lander
Scientific career
Institutions	Broad Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Topics in Algebraic Coding Theory (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Peter Cameron
Doctoral students	Julie 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.

Lander received a MacArthur Fellowship. He founded the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research, was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project, and was the founding director of the Broad Institute.^[5] He was Science Advisor to the President for Presidents Obama and Biden.