George M. Church
Biographical Sketch:
George Church is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of
PersonalGenomes.org,
which provides the world's only open-access information on human Genomic,
Environmental & Trait data (
GET).
His 1984 Harvard PhD included the first methods for direct genome sequencing,
molecular multiplexing & barcoding. These led to the first genome sequence (pathogen,
Helicobacter pylori) in
1994 .
His innovations have contributed to nearly all "next generation" genome sequencing methods and companies (CGI, Life, Illumina, nanopore). This plus chip-based DNA synthesis and stem cell engineering resulted in founding additional application-based companies spanning fields of medical diagnostics (
Knome,
Alacris,
AbVitro,
Pathogenica ) &
synthetic biology / therapeutics (
Joule,
Gen9,
Editas,
Egenesis,
enEvolv,
WarpDrive ).
He has also pioneered new
privacy,
biosafety ,
environmental
&
biosecurity policies.
He is director of NIH
Center for Excellence in Genomic Science. His
honors include election to
NAS &
NAE &
Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science. He has coauthored
402 papers,
74 patents & one book (
Regenesis).
PhD students from (* = main training programs for our group):
Harvard University:
HILS (
Biophysics* ,
BBS* ,
MCB ,
ChemBio* ,
SystemsBio*)
MIT:
HST*,
Chemistry,
EE/CS,
Physics,
Math.
Boston Universty:
Bioinformatics,
Biomedical Engineering
Cambridge University, UK:
Genetics
Publications,
CVs-resumes,
Lab members ,
Co-author net
Technology transfer & Commercial Scientific Advisory Roles
Personal info --
News --
Awards --
Grant proposals
Director of Research Centers:
DOE-Biofuels,
NIH-CEGS,
PGP,
Wyss Inst. Synthetic Biology
Latest Update: 19-Oct-2015 by George (
email).