Pioneering Genomics Scientist and Presidential Science Advisor
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEric Steven Lander is a renowned geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician who has fundamentally shaped modern genomic science. As a principal leader of the Human Genome Project from 1990 to 2003, he made transformative contributions to genome mapping, sequencing, and characterization. His research group contributed one-third of all sequencing to the $3 billion project that decoded three billion DNA letters in the human genetic code.