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Eric S. Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is the Founding Director Emeritus of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research primarily focuses on the application of the human genome in medicine, including the successful completion of the Human Genome Project. Lander's work aims to decipher the complex information encoded in the human genetic code, addressing genes, regulatory controls, and cellular circuitry. His lab collaborates to understand the genetic basis of rare diseases, common diseases, and cancer, exploring genetic variation, the evolution of the human genome, gene regulation, enhancer functions, long non-coding RNAs, and the three-dimensional structure of genomes. Additionally, Lander's research investigates the developmental trajectories of cellular differentiation and the historical context of human populations.