Complex sentence: In 1990 he founded W.I.C.G.R. (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research) W.I.C.G.R. was one of the world's leading centers of genome research, and under Doctor Lander's leadership, it has made great progress in developing new methods of analysing mammalian genomes.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1990 he founded the WICGR (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research). WICGR became one of the world's leading centers of genome research, and under Dr. Lander's leadership, it has made great progress in developing new methods of analysing mammalian genomes.