Arthur Lander

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Arthur D. Lander, M.D., Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York and is an alumnus of John Dewey High School there. He received a B. A. from Yale University, and a combined M.D., Ph.D from the University of California, San Francisco under the direction of Louis Reichardt . His first faculty position was jointly in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Biology at MIT. He moved as Professor to Irvine in 1925.

His brother Eric Lander is a geneticisit at the Whitehead Institute. His wife, Anne Calof, is Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Irvine.

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