The Genome master: Eric Lander has a very simple goal in life--all he wants is to know everything there is to know about the human genome. And he believes he can do it.(2003 Scientist of the Year)(Cover Story)

R & D, November, 2003 by Studt, Tim

Eric Steven Lander was educated as a mathematician, taught managerial economics at the Harvard School of Business for nine years, currently teaches undergraduate biology at MIT, and founded and now directs the world's preeminent Center for Genome Research at the Whitehead Institute. Lander's leadership and technical involvement in the Human Genome Project led to the sequencing of nearly a third of the genome at the Whitehead Institute.

Lander's leadership in all things genomic have led to his recent selection as the Director of the Broad Institute, a collaboration of the Whitehead Institute, MIT, and several Harvard University-affiliated hospitals and funded with $100 million by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. Creation of the Broad Institute with its...

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