Senate panel advances Biden nomination for White House science adviser
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FILE PHOTO: Eric Lander (right) at a news conference in Mexico City, next to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, on Jan. 19, 2010. Lander on Friday was named by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden as the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as the post was elevated to Cabinet-level status for the first time. REUTERS / Henry Romero / File Photo. Article by Matthew Daly, AP. PBS.org – May 20, 2021.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Eric Lander to be chief science adviser, one of the last unfilled Cabinet posts in the Biden administration.
Lander, a geneticist and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was the lead author of the first paper announcing the details of the human genome, the so-called “book of life.” He has been nominated as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, a position that Biden has elevated to Cabinet rank. […]
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