Broad In­sti­tute's Er­ic Lan­der con­firmed to Biden cab­i­net; Leg­end re­veals the BC­MA CAR-T da­ta pack­age be­hind pri­or­i­ty re­view

Ge­neti­cist Er­ic Lan­der was con­firmed by the US Sen­ate to lead the White House Of­fice of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Pol­i­cy Fri­day.

Lan­der is the di­rec­tor of the Broad In­sti­tute of MIT and Har­vard, and the last of Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s Cab­i­net nom­i­nees to be con­firmed. He was con­firmed de­spite ques­tions sur­round­ing con­nec­tions to fi­nancier and sex of­fend­er Jef­frey Ep­stein, whom he met with twice in 2012. Lan­der told law­mak­ers he was un­aware of Ep­stein’s his­to­ry when they met.

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