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Eric Lander(1957)
Life SciencesEric Steven Lander 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.
United StatesBroad Institute
5
Major Awards
96
Publications
111,734
Citations
55
h-index
63
i10-index
1163.9
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
External Profiles
Career Path
Award progression over time
Apex Elite Prestigious
Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
SY
Shinya Yamanaka
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
BV
Bert Vogelstein
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
RW
Robert Weinberg
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
LC
Lewis Cantley
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
TD
Titia de Lange
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
NF
Napoleone Ferrara
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
CB
Cornelia Bargmann
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
DB
David Botstein
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
HC
Hans Clevers
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
CS
Charles Sawyers
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
JW
James Watson
Gairdner International Award (2002)
CV
Craig Venter
Gairdner International Award (2002)
Education
University of Oxford(Doctor of Philosophy)
Princeton University
Stuyvesant High School
Doctoral Advisors
Erez Lieberman AidenManolis KellisPeter Cameron
Career Timeline
Harvard University?–present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology?–present
Positions & Roles
Science Advisor to the President
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Top Publications
De novo assembly of the
<i>Aedes aegypti</i>
genome using Hi-C yields chromosome-length scaffolds
Science20172,613 citations
Activity-by-contact model of enhancer–promoter regulation from thousands of CRISPR perturbations
Nature Genetics20191,086 citations
Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes
Nature2021618 citations
A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation
Nature2020388 citations
Identification of cancer driver genes based on nucleotide context
Nature Genetics2020216 citations
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
DL
David Liu
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2025)
Victor Ambros
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2024)
Gary Ruvkun
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2024)
FZ
Feng Zhang
Gruber Prize in Genetics (2022)
Svante Pääbo
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2022)
Huda Zoghbi
Horwitz Prize (2022)
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020)
Jennifer A. Doudna
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020)
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