Eric Lander

Quick Facts

Full Name	Eric Lander
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1957(1957-02-03)
Age	67
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Eric Lander Biography

Eric Lander is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on February 3, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Eric Steven Lander (born February 3 1957) is a mathematician and geneticist. professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School Formerly a participant in the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He was co-chairman of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He was an 1988 MacArthur Fellow.

The year 1989 was the first time Lander was a witness for expert in the case involving criminals: People v. Castro in New York. He demonstrated that the current technique of interpreting DNA data was in error and was prone to provide fake positives, thereby implicating innocent defendants. Two lawyers representing defense involved in this instance, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck were later able to establish The Innocence Project, an organization that uses the analysis of DNA to exonerate wrongly convicted prisoners. Lander is an officer on the board of directors.

In 2001, a draft of the human genome was published in the journal Nature. The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Center for Genome Research, was listed first (the order was according to total genomic sequence contributed). Lander was the first author named.

Lander was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of our time (2004) for his work on the HGP. Lander has also appeared in numerous PBS documentaries about genetics. He was listed at #2 on the MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas from MIT.

He was later introduced to David Botstein, a geneticist who was working at MIT. Botstein was researching ways to discover how subtle variations between complex genes could cause diseases like schizophrenia, diabetes, cancer and obesity. They collaborated on the development of an algorithm for computers to study the gene maps. Lander later joined the Whitehead Institute in 1986; in the is the year that he was made an associate professor of MIT. Lander was given the highly coveted MacArthur Fellowship in 1987. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1990. established the Whitehead Institute/MIT Centre for Genomics Research (WICGR). The WICGR has since become one of the most renowned genomic research centers, and under Lander’s direction it made significant progress in developing innovative methods of analysing mammalian genomes. It also made major advances in applying these findings to study the human genetic variations, and provided the Broad Institute’s founding revolution which Lander led.

Eric Lander Net Worth

Eric Lander is one of the richest Mathematician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Lander 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lander was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in an ethnically Jewish family. He was being the child of Harold Lander and Rhoda Lander, both attorneys. He was the captain of the team that played math of Stuyvesant High School and an International Mathematical Olympiad Silver Medalist for the United States, graduating from high school in 1974. He was a participant and later a teacher in Hampshire College in the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program. At 17 years old He wrote a research paper on quasiperfect number in which he was awarded the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Lander studied at Princeton University, where he was valedictorian in 1978. He wrote his senior thesis, entitled “On the structure of projective modules” under the guidance under the direction of John Coleman Moore. He later was accepted into at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and he completed the Doctor of Philosophy thesis on algebraic coding theory as well as geometric block designs that are symmetric under the guidance from Peter Cameron.

In 1999, Lander received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

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On February 6, 2017, Lander received a honoris causa doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain.

Facts & Trivia

Eric Ranked on the list of most popular Mathematician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Eric Lander celebrates birthday on February 3 of every year.

What is Eric Lander famous for?

Eric Lander is president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard*. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician , he has played a pioneering role in all aspects of the reading, understanding, and biomedical application of the human genome.

Does Eric Lander still teach at MIT?

Eric Lander
Education| Princeton University (AB) Wolfson College, Oxford (MS, DPhil)

What religion is Eric Lander?

You know, I’m Jewish , was raised Jewish. I brought up my kids in the Jewish tradition. We celebrate Jewish traditions. And the religion means something to me.

How old is Eric Lander?

65 years (February 3, 1957)

Is Eric Lander married?

Lori Lander