{"id":993,"date":"2012-01-13T22:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2012-01-13T22:34:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:34:26","slug":"an-interesting-story-about-eric-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/an-interesting-story-about-eric-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting story about Eric Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eric Lander\" src=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/2d9921cf0a6c748ec1dcdd7e8c3cb00c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"436\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/2d9921cf0a6c748ec1dcdd7e8c3cb00c.jpg\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Friedman for The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From New York Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014 His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics, in a subfield so esoteric and specialized that even if someone gets a great result, it can be appreciated by only a few dozen people in the entire world. But he left that world behind and, with no formal training, entered another: the world of molecular biology, medicine and genomics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article &#8220;Power in Numbers&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/03\/science\/broad-institute-director-finds-power-in-numbers.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Times: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014 His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics, in a subfield so esoteric and specialized that even if someone gets a great result, it can be appreciated by only a few dozen people in the entire world. But he left that world behind and, with no formal training, entered another: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","tag-eric-lander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}