Scientific Advisor
George Church
Scientific Advisor, Harton
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Director, PersonalGenomes.Org
Founding Core Faculty member & Lead, Synthetic Biology Platform, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
George Church is widely recognized for his innovative contributions to genomic science and his many pioneering contributions to chemistry and biomedicine. In 1984, he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method, which resulted in the first genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori). He helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005. George invented the broadly applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers.
He is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Director of PersonalGenomes.org., and Founding Core Faculty member & Lead, Synthetic Biology at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. George has received multiple awards including the 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute and election to the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering. He co-authored 590 publications, 155 patents, and a book titled “Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves”. He also started over 20 companies.
Photo Credit: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University