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George Church

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Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist

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Chemistry
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#953
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chemistry Degrees
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Biology
#833
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#448
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Biotechnology
#6
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#6
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Bioinformatics
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#5
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Computational Biology
#12
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#12
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#8
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biology Degrees
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George M. Church is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Board of Sponsors. He earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology and chemistry from Duke University. He went on to a graduate biochemistry program at Duke, but became so immersed in his lab work that he abandoned his other coursework and ended up getting withdrawn from the program. Undeterred, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University.

Best known for his work in genome engineering and synthetic biology, Church is credited with pioneering the fields of synthetic biology and personal genomics. He has provided significant leadership in his field, with positions at the Center on Bioenergy Technology and Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard, as well as at Veritas Genetics and Veritas International, which he co-founded.

Church has recently been criticized for his use of Jeffrey Epstein as a source of funding for his research. The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has been providing funding for research under Church since 2005 and continues to this day.

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According to Wikipedia, George McDonald Church 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. Through his Harvard lab Church has co-founded around 50 biotech companies pushing the boundaries of innovation in the world of life sciences and making his lab as a hotbed of biotech startup activity in Boston. In 2018, the Church lab at Harvard made a record by spinning 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 " 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, established by Albert Einstein.

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