Prof. George Church is a pioneering scientist in reading and writing DNA. He developed the first direct genomic sequencing method and helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005, and demonstrated that CRISPR/Cas9 could be used to edit human stem cells—several in a very long list of contributions.
He is currently professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). He also leads the Harvard Molecular Technologies lab in Boston.
He has authored more than 600 papers, 155 patent publications and a book, Regenesis.
