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Date of Birth
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03-February-1957
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Place of Birth
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Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Eric Steven Lander
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Profession
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Mathematician, Scientist, Economist, Geneticist, Professor
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Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former member of the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career to realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 2013 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work.
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