Eric Lander is a prominent American geneticist and molecular biologist known for his significant contributions to the field of genomics. He was one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project, which was an international research initiative aimed at mapping and understanding all the genes of the human species. Lander has served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is also a founding director of the Broad Institute, a collaborative research institution focused on genomics and biomedical science.
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