George M. Church

George M. Church, Ph.D., is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, and a Founding Member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. Dr. Church is also Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Technology Center, Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science, and Director of the Personal Genome Project. He is the co-founder of more than 15 biotech companies including AbVitro, Editas Medicine, Veritas Genetics, Warpdrive Bio, eGenesis and ReadCoor. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science. He received a B.A. in Zoology and Chemistry from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University.