Interviewed by William Leonard Pickard
George Church, PhD, is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
His research efforts include the first direct genome sequencing method, collaborating in initiating the Human Genome Project, and creating the Personal Genome Project. He co-founded over 50 biotechnology companies as spin-offs from the Church Lab, including Veritas Genetics, Rejuvenate Bio, and Nebula Genomics. Church began Colossal Biosciences to de-extinct the woolly mammoth.
