Word: lander
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...Whitehead faculty member Eric S. Lander is the director and driving force behind the center. Lander, who played a key role in the Human Genome Project and was named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people, was named to the faculty of Harvard Medical School in March...
...Lander said the institute has already become involved in a number of major research projects. He has touted the program as a way to bring researchers together and allow them to undertake larger projects together than they could have alone, and he added that so far the center has been very successful in building an “intellectual and practical” community of undergraduates, graduates, postdoctoral students and faculty...
...attention-grabbing April Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study that explained why the lung cancer drug Iressa was so successful relied on Broad’s resources. Lander said it relied on Broad’s facilities to run a large-scale analysis that revealed a mutation in some lung cancer patients that dramatically increases their responsiveness to Iressa...
...More broadly, what it has implications for is that the rest of cancer is going to look like this,” Lander said. “I think cancer is going to be divided up over the next decade or so into a number of subtypes…to be able to identify what are the Achilles heels of various types of cancer...
...Lander said Broad needs to continue work on cataloging projects like the Human Genome Project, finding cancer mutations and finding human genetic variation...