Professor George Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, serial entrepreneur, and pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology who co-authored 705 papers, 165 patent publications and a book “Regenesis”. 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 University. 

Through his Harvard lab, George has co-founded around 50 biotech companies. In 2018, the Church lab at Harvard spun 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, gene and cell therapy, neurobiology, info processing, medical genetics, aging, genomics, diagnostics, chemistry and bioengineering, space biology and 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 George 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. His honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science.