Arthur D. Lander, M.D., Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Complex Biological Systems at the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

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He was born in Brooklyn

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, New York

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, and is an alumnus of John Dewey High School

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 there. He received a B.A. from Yale University

Yale University

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 and a combined M.D., Ph.D from the University of California, San Francisco

University of California, San Francisco

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, under the direction of Louis Reichardt

Louis Reichardt

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. His first faculty position was jointly in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Biology at MIT. He moved as Professor to Irvine in 1995.

His brother, Eric Lander

Eric Lander

Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S...

, is a geneticist at the Whitehead Institute

Whitehead Institute

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. His wife, Anne Calof, is Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Irvine.