Eric S. Lander

Awards

1. 2002

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For their major seminal contributions to the sequencing of the human and other genomes.

2. 2013

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for the discovery of general principles for identifying human disease genes, and enabling their application to medicine through the creation and analysis of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the human genome.