George M. Church
Bio (76 words): Professor at Harvard & MIT, co-author of 590 papers, 155 patent publications & the book "Regenesis"; developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost reductions since (via fluor-NGS & nanopores), plus barcoding, DNA assembly from chips, genome editing, writing & recoding; co-initiated BRAIN Initiative (2011) & Genome Projects (GP-Read-1984, GP-Write-2016, PGP-2005:world's open-access personal precision medicine datasets); machine learning for protein engineering, tissue reprogramming, organoids, xeno-transplantation, in situ 3D DNA, RNA, protein imaging.
Biographical Sketch (176 words):
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" DNA sequencing methods and companies (CGI-BGI, Life, Illumina, Nanopore). This plus his lab's work on chip-DNA-synthesis, gene editing and stem cell engineering resulted in founding additional application-based companies spanning fields of medical diagnostics (
Knome/PierianDx,
Alacris,
AbVitro/Juno,
Genos,
Veritas Genetics ) &
synthetic biology / therapeutics (
Joule,
Gen9,
Editas,
Egenesis,
enEvolv,
WarpDrive ).
He has also pioneered new
privacy,
biosafety,
ELSI,
environmental
&
biosecurity policies.
He is director of an IARPA
BRAIN Project and NIH
Center for Excellence in Genomic Science. His
honors include election to
NAS &
NAE &
Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science. He has coauthored
590 papers,
155 patent publications & one book (
Regenesis).
PhD students from (* = main training programs for our group):
Harvard University:
Biophysics* ,
BBS* ,
MCB ,
ChemBio* ,
SystemsBio* ,
Virology
MIT:
HST*,
Chemistry,
EE/CS,
Physics,
Math.
Boston Universty:
Bioinformatics,
Biomedical Engineering
Cambridge University, UK:
Genetics
Publications,
CVs-resumes,
Lab members ,
Co-author net,
ELSI
Technology transfer & Commercial Scientific Advisory Roles
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Grant proposals
Director of Research Centers:
DOE-Biotechnologies (1987),
NIH-CEGS (2004),
PGP (2005),
Lipper Center for Computational Genetics (1998),
Wyss Inst. Synthetic Biology (2009). Other centers:
Regenesis Inst. (2017),
SIAT Genome Engineering (2019),
Space Genetics (2016),
WICGR, Broad Inst. (1990),
MIT Media Lab (2014)
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