# Eric Steven Lander Professor of Systems Biology ![Eric Lander](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/bigphd/files/lander_eric_0.jpg?itok=05aOkMPA) location\_on Merkin Building, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 smartphone [617-714-7010](tel:617-714-7010) email laptop\_windows [Lab Website](https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/eric-s-lander) laptop\_windows [Publications](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lander%2C+Eric+Steven&sort=date) A geneticist, molecular biologist and mathematician, Eric Lander is the Founding Director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, as well as a professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Professor of Biology at MIT. He pioneered the key principles for discovering the genes underlying human diseases and helped to bring them into reality as one of the principal leaders of the international Human Genome Project. His research has ranged over all aspects of the human genome ‐‐ including the genetic basis of inherited diseases and cancer, human population history, evolutionary forces, regulatory elements, long non‐coding RNAs, and three‐dimensional folding of the genome. Dr. Lander was appointed by President Obama in 2008 to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which advises the White House on matters including health, manufacturing, energy, communications, nanotechnology and national security. Dr. Lander earned his BA from Princeton and PhD from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has co-founded several successful biotechnology firms. - ## AIM or BIG Faculty [BIG Faculty](/aim-and-big-faculty/big-faculty) - ## Faculty research type [Hybrid of computational and experimental](/faculty-research-type/hybrid-computational-and-experimental) - ## People [BIG Program Faculty](/people/BIGfaculty) - ## Primary affiliation [MIT](/primary-affiliation/mit) - ## Research Area [Applying genomics to understand the molecular basis of human physiology and disease](/research-area/applying-genomics-understand-molecular-basis-human-physiology-and-disease)