Institute of Medicine in He has received honorary degrees from eight colleges and universities, and has served on governing and advisory boards for various government agencies, academic institutions, scientific societies and corporations. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.
Burns Steve Case Kenneth I. For more than 30 years, Lander has worked to use science as a tool for justice. In , he was the principal scientist connected to the founding of the Innocence Project — which has to date helped exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals — and has since made major ongoing contributions to improving the quality of forensic science. Killian Jr. He was elected a member of the U.
National Academy of Sciences in and of the U. Institute of Medicine in J Infect Dis ,. Nat Biotechnol 39, N Engl J Med , Cell Rep Med 1, Lancet Neurol 19, He was a principal leader of the international Human Genome Project. Lander developed powerful methods for discovering the molecular basis of human diseases.
Among them were the first methods for mapping the genes underlying polygenic disorders in which many genes play a role — including heart disease, diabetes, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease; these paradigms have led to more than , discoveries connecting regions of the human DNA with hundreds of diseases and traits, shedding light on the underlying biological mechanisms.
He has done pioneering work on human genetic variation; human population history; genome evolution; regulatory elements; long non-coding RNAs; three-dimensional folding of the human genome; and genome-wide screens to discover the genes essential for biological processes using CRISPR-based genome editing. Killian Jr.
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