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Biden appoints geneticist Eric Lander as science advisor – Science Magazine
Post will also be elevated to Cabinet level
Eric Lander
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By Jeffrey Mervis, Jocelyn KaiserJan. 15, 2021 , 3:45 PM
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a research policy mavenand familiar faceto be both his science adviser and head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
Eric Lander, 63, is president and founding director of the Broad Institute, which is jointly run by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A mathematician turned molecular biologist, Lander was also…
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