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Eric Lander

director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy a

b. 1957age 69Living

A mathematician turned geneticist who became one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project, the effort to sequence the entirety of human DNA, and went on to found the Broad Institute, now one of the world's leading genomics research centers. He served as Science Advisor to the President under both Barack Obama and Joe Biden and holds a MacArthur Fellowship.

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