Eric Lander

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; February 3, 1957; New York City, U.S.
Party	Democratic
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; Kenro Kusumi; Manolis Kellis; 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. He was Science Advisor to the President for Presidents Obama and Biden.