Genetics guru to lecture in Chennai

Chennai, February 22:

Geneticist Eric Steven Lander who pioneered the general principles for identifying human disease genes and their application to medicine will deliver a lecture in Chennai on Wednesday as part of the Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series 2015.

Lander will talk on The Human Genome and Beyond: A 35-year journey of genomic medicine, on February 25, at 6.00 pm at the Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao (Lady Andal) Auditorium. N Ram, Chairman and Publisher of The Hindu Group of publications will introduce the speaker, said a press release from the organisers.

Lander who was appointed by US President Barack Obama in 2008 to co chair the US Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is concurrently Professor of Biology at MIT and Professor of Systems at the Harvard Medical School.

The mathematician turned biologist turned geneticist was one of the principle leaders of the Human Genome Project which mapped the human genetic code between 1990 and 2003.

Cell Press, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imprint of Elsevier Press which publishes 31 highly cited journals. The Chennai-based TNQ delivers pre publishing services and publishing solutions.

(This article was published on February 22, 2015)

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Genetics guru to lecture in Chennai