Arthur Lander

Dr. Lander received a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale, followed by an M.D. and Ph.D. (Neuroscience) from UCSF. After postdoctoral research at Columbia, he joined MIT where he later received tenure. He moved to UCI in 1995 and is currently the Donald Bren Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Logic & Philosophy of Science.  Dr. Lander founded and directs the UCI Center for Complex Biological Systems, which fosters interdisciplinary research, training, and outreach at the interface between biology and the physical, computational, and engineering sciences. Honors include a Packard Fellowship and a RARE Champion of Hope in Science Award. He was elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and fellowship in the American Association for the Advance of Science. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation USA. Dr. Lander enjoys doing Systems Biology, fusing biology with mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science, seeking design principles that explain the complexity of life. He asks how cells know their locations; how tissues and organs maintain precise sizes; how selection for control sows the seeds of birth defects and cancer; and how to make inferences from biological “big” data more accurate.