Eric Lander's role will be divided between the celebrated sociologist Alondra Nelson and genome leader Francis Collins
that, according to a White House investigation, he had violated the Biden administration’s Safe and Respectful Workplace Policy by mistreating staff members within the OSTP. In his resignation letter, Lander acknowledged that things he said to team members “crossed the line at times into being disrespectful and demeaning”.
Biden moved swiftly to name interim replacements for Lander, who had been leading some of the president’s priority science initiatives — in particular, the creation of a high-risk, high-reward biomedical innovations agency called ARPA-H, and , which launched five years ago and has the new goal of decreasing cancer deaths by at least 50% in the next 25 years.’s query about why Lander’s duties have been split between two people.
Since the OSTP was established in 1976, the agency's director has also gone by the title of science adviser to the president. The OSTP director oversees a staff of roughly 100 people who are charged with coordinating scientific activities across the federal government and ensuring that the president and the executive branch have access to the best available scientific information as they make decisions and craft federal policies.
The White House announcement said: “The selections are responsive to the dual importance of a strong OSTP that can drive science and technology solutions to our greatest challenges — and the very specific attention the President wants to give to the creation of a new ARPA-H research and discovery agency, the building of support for a Cancer Moonshot 2.0, the search for a new head of NIH, and the broad advisory work of PCAST.
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