George Church (geneticist)

George McDonald Church (born August 28, 1954) is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, serial entrepreneur, and pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology. He is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

Through his Harvard lab Church has co-founded around 50 biotech companies. In 2018, the Church lab at Harvard spun off 16 biotech companies in one year. The Church lab works on research projects that are distributed in diverse areas of modern biology like developmental biology, neurobiology, info processing, medical genetics, genomics, gene therapy, diagnostics, chemistry & bioengineering, space biology & space genetics, and ecosystem. Research and technology developments at the Church lab have impacted or made direct contributions to nearly all "next-generation sequencing (NGS)" methods and companies.

In 2017, ''Time'' magazine listed him in ''Time'' 100, the list of ''100 most influential people in the world''. In 2022, he was featured among the most influential people in biopharma by ''Fierce Pharma'', and was listed among the ''top 8 famous geneticists'' of all time in human history. , Church serves as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Board of Sponsors. Provided by Wikipedia