The Human Genome Project is as good as done, says MIT's Eric Lander. Now it's time to start thinking about how the data will be used.
For insiders in genome research, the name Eric Lander evokes a palpable image of the trends sweeping biology-automation, computers, entrepreneurialism, big science and big ideas.
A mathematician turned Harvard Business School professor turned gene scientist, the 42-year-old Lander is director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT Center for Genome Research. Lander has built the lab into the world's most productive academic gene sequencing facility and the flagship of the international Human Genome Project.
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