Arthur D. Lander

Dr. Arthur D. Lander is the Donald Bren Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the Director of the Center for Complex Biological Systems, an NIGMS National Center for Systems Biology.Dr. Lander serves on the editorial boards of PLoS Biology and BMC Biology, is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, and a member of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation. Research in the Lander lab is focused on the Systems Biology of Development and Disease and deals with topics in Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Mathematical/Computational Biology, Glycobiology, Neurobiology, Cancer Biology, and Engineering. He has contributed to the development of new animal models of birth defects syndromes, the identification of new therapeutic approaches to cancer, and the elucidation of the fundamental design principles used by developing and regenerating biological systems.Dr. Lander is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his B.S., summa cum laude, in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale College, New Haven, CT, and Ph.D. in Neuroscience and M.D. degrees from University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of over a hundred peer-reviewed publications, and four patents, including two that were co-invented with scientists and engineers at Aphios.