Eric Lander, 2015 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize Winner (IMAGE)

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Eric Lander, 2015 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize Winner

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Distinguished geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician Eric Steven Lander -- president and founding director of the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, and a principal leader of the historic international Human Genome Project -- has been chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to receive the 2015 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize.

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