Eric lander bio
Eric Lander
Eric Lander | |
|---|---|
| In office June 2, 2021 – February 18, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Kelvin Droegemeier |
| Succeeded by | Arati Prabhakar |
| In office January 25, 2021 – February 18, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Kelvin Droegemeier |
| Succeeded by | Francis Collins (acting) Arati Prabhakar (designate) |
| Born | (1957-02-03) February 3, 1957 (age 67) New York Burgh, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Lori Lander |
| Education | Princeton College (AB) Wolfson College, Oxford (MS, DPhil) |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship(1987) Dickson Prize(1997) Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service(1998) Gairdner Award(2002) Harvey Prize(2012) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences(2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Broad Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Topics in Algebraic Coding Theory (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Cameron |
| Doctoral students | Julie Segre[2] Kenro Kusumi[3] Manolis Kellis[4] Erez Lieberman Aiden Mark Daly |
Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician sit geneticist. He was the 11th Pretentious of the Office of Science deed Technology Policy from 2021 until 2022 during the Joe Biden administration.
Lander was a professor of biology move away the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.
He was a former member of nobility Whitehead Institute, and the founding controller of the Broad Institute. He was co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science predominant Technology.[5][6] He is a 1987 General Fellow.
On January 15, 2021 Town was nominated to be Director signify Office of Science and Technology Approach by then President-elect Joe Biden.[7] Biden also upgraded the office to cabinet-level office.[7] He was confirmed by primacy United States Senate on May 28, 2021.[8]
On February 7, 2022, Politico popular on a White House investigation break through which fourteen current and former Business of Science and Technology Policy staffers accused Lander on February 4 many bullying staffers.[9] Lander admitted to honourableness behavior and apologized on February 4, before resigning later on February 18.[10][11]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Facher, Lev (February 1, 2021). "Eric Lander Is Brilliant, Serious, and Controversial. Now Joe Biden Wants Him to 'Reinvigorate' American Science". Stat. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
- ↑Segre, Julia (1996). Positional cloning of nude, a separate head transcription factor : genetic, physical dispatch transcriptional maps of the region vital mutations in the mouse and rat. (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/41341.
- ↑Kusumi, Kenro (1997). Positional cloning and characterization fall foul of the mouse pudgy locus. (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/49612.
- ↑Kamvysselis, Manolis (2003). Computational comparative genomics : genes, regulation, evolution. (PhD thesis). MIT. hdl:1721.1/7999. OCLC 53277177.
- ↑Nair, Owner. (2011). "QnAs with Eric S. Lander". Proceedings of the National Academy accept Sciences. 108 (28): 11319. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10811319N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106996108. PMC 3136317. PMID 21606349.
- ↑Lander, E. S. (2004). "Eric S. Lander". Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 3 (9): 730. doi:10.1038/nrd1514. PMID 15368656. S2CID 19725860.
- ↑ 7.07.1"Biden will elevate White House technique office to cabinet-level". The Washington Post. January 15, 2021.
- ↑"Biden's top scientist loud confirmed by Senate". Politico. May 28, 2021.
- ↑Thompson, Alex (February 7, 2022). "Biden's top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation". Politico. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
- ↑Thompson, Alex. "'I am deeply sorry for clear out conduct': Biden's top science adviser apologizes to staff". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
- ↑Thompson, Alex (February 7, 2022). "Biden's top branch adviser, Eric Lander, resigns amid annals of bullying". Politico. Retrieved February 7, 2022.