Most politicians have ties to corporations. I got curious about Eric Lander after reading the #PoundersBible where I discovered his recent appointment to Biden's Science team. IFFFFF this appointment is to have any influential benefit for an individual company...

it appears that company would be $EDIT. Broad Institute, where Lander was President and Founding Director, licenced its Cas9 to $EDIT. One of $EDITs big early investors was Third Rock Ventures.

Third Rock's founding partners were all C level guys from Millenium Pharmceuticals, now $TAK, a company cofounded by Lander.

$EDIT was founded as a startup by one of Broad's core researchers, Feng Zhang. 

Part of payments $EDIT made for the Cas9 license was equity, which means Broad Institute is actually a shareholder of $EDIT.

Other companies Lander has cofounded, as of 2017, are $INFI and $VSTM and Neon Therapeutics, just acquired by BioNTech, the $PFE partner for Covid vaccine. It does not appear he serves in any roles with these companies, but perhaps he is still a shareholder.

At some point, I believe he will be required to publicly disclose any stock he holds. I couldn't find it, so maybe it's not out yet. Mr. Lander has disclosed recieving consulting fees from Codiak BioSciences, Neon Therapeutics, F-Prime Capital Partners, Third Rock Ventures

Other interesting note in the research is the tension between Lander's crew and the crew of Jennifer Doudna who has her ties to $NTLA.

For what it's worth, this is my contribution to #PoundNation thank you @PoundingDaTable