Eric Lander

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Eric Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician. He was a principal leader of the Human Genome Project and is the president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Eric joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his work with the Human Genome project, the practical applications they've found, and how collaborative biology has become. Eric describes how the Broad Institute came to be, how their data is starting to uncover connections between different diseases, and that we have a lot of challenges ahead that are going to take science to solve. Dax takes a few swings and misses with his 25-year-old biology memory and Eric explains why humility has to be a part of every bit of science. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert, I'm Dan Shepard, I'm joined virtually, or rather I'm joining her virtually miniature mouse. She has an Emmy nomination.
0:10.0	It's so weird to just see you through the screen.
0:12.8	I don't like it. I can't smell you.
0:14.8	Well, that's good because I haven't showered in a couple days.
0:17.4	Sure. I understand.
0:18.8	Today we have a really exciting guest and I would say one of the reasons is exciting is that I
0:23.4	shit the bed on this one about three or four times I'd say in that I thought I
0:27.6	understood how certain aspects of cellular reproduction happened and I was
0:32.3	incorrect but he encouraged me to keep going ahead of cellular reproduction happened and I was incorrect.
0:33.0	But he encouraged me to keep going ahead.
0:35.0	So if you like seeing me eat shit, this is the episode.
0:38.0	I don't think we've ever had somebody with a more interesting trajectory into being a world leader in their field.
0:45.0	Eric Lander is currently the president and founding director of the Brode Institute at MIT and Harvard.
0:51.0	He's a geneticist, a molecular biologist, and a mathematician, and he has played
0:56.1	a pioneering role in all aspects of the reading, understanding, and biomedical application of the
1:00.9	human genome. He was a principal leader of the Human Genome
1:03.9	Project and Lander is a professor of biology at MIT and professor of systems
1:09.1	biology at Harvard Medical School. He's won a bunch of honors and awards, the MacArthur Fellowship,
1:13.8	the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Albany Prize in Medicine and Biological Research.
1:18.4	But most importantly, this guy was just a brilliant mathematician that decided,
1:22.6	I don't want to study math the rest of my life,
1:25.0	and he landed in the most incredible place.
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