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George Church

Dr. George McDonald Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, and entrepreneur.

History

In April 2017, Church was included on Time's annual list of 100 most influential people in the world. Stephen Colbert wrote a glowing tribute to him to mark the occasion.1) 2)

Church was partly funded from 2005 to 2007 by the nonprofit Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, a private foundation established by Jeffrey Epstein.3) In his 2019 apology for “poor awareness” of Epstein's sex offender status, Church said he had “nerd tunnel vision” and articles on Epstein's crimes were unclear to him, placing responsibility on vetting donors on the development office.4)

COVID-19

Church is a member of the Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative (RaDVaC), formed in March 2020 to deploy experimental COVID-19 vaccines.5)

Affiliations

Name Position
23andMe Advisor6)
4baseCare Advisor7)
Alacris Theranostics Founder8)
Alibaba DAMO Academy Advisor9)
Alveo Technologies Advisor10)
Betterhumans Scientific Advisor11)
Biogen Researcher (former)12)
BRAIN Initiative Co-initiator
Broad Institute Senior associate member13)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Member of the Board of Sponsors14)
Celestial Therapeutics Scientific Advisor15)
Center for Consequences of Causal Variation Director16)
Center for Genome Engineering and Therapy Director17)
Center on Bioenergy Technology Director
Complete Genomics Advisory board member18)
Consortium for Space Genetics Faculty member19)
Duke University Researcher
Effective Altruism Global Speaker at EA Global Boston in 201720) 21)
Flagship Pioneering “Friend”, Founder of many companies funded by Flagship22)
Franklin Institute Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science23)
Future of Life Institute External advisor24)
Gen9 Founder. Purchase by Gingko Bioworks25)
GenapSys Advisory board member26)
Genia Advisor27)
Genome Compiler Advisor28)
George Church Institute of Regenesis Director29)
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Past speaker30)
Harvard College Effective Altruism Speaker31)
Harvard Medical School Professor
Harvard University Professor
HelixNano Scientific Advisor32)
Human Genome Project (HGP) Co-initiator33)
IBM Advisor34)
Illumina -
Intelligent Bio-Systems Advisor35)
Ion Torrent Advisor36)
Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation Research funding37)
Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow
Lipper Center for Computational Genetics Director
Lynx Therapeutics Advisor38)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor39)
Mind First Foundation Founder40)
MIT Media Lab Visiting Professor (Ethics), Past Member (Director's Office)41)
Molecular Systems Biology (journal) Editor
Nabsys Scientific Advisor42)
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member43)
National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists Past speaker44)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Member45)
Noblegen Biosciences Advisor46)
Personal Genome Project (PGP) Director
Poseida Therapeutics Gene Therapy Scientific Advisory Board Chair47)
Roswell Biotechnologies Advisor48)
Solexa -
Supercentenarian Research Study Scientific Advisor49)
Tessera Therapeutics Scientific Advisory Board Member50)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Advisor
United States Department of Energy Funding
University of California San Francisco Post-doctoral researcher
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Director
XGenomes Advisor51)
1)
Stendahl, M. (2017, April 20). George Church makes Time’s “most influential” list — with a nod from Stephen Colbert. Boston Business Journal. https://archive.ph/CoNL5
2)
Colbert, S. (2017). George Church: The World’s 100 Most Influential People. Time. https://web.archive.org/web/20230112234055/https://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742749/george-church/
3) , 37)
Church, G. M. (2017, March 25). Tech transfer. Church Lab. https://archive.ph/XKy12
4)
Begley, S. (2019, August 5). Citing “nerd tunnel vision,” biologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. STAT. https://archive.ph/PuvW0
5)
Regalado, A. (2020, July 29). Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine, and nobody knows if it’s legal or if it works. MIT Technology Review. https://archive.ph/EObRH
6)
About Us: Scientific Advisory Board. 23andMe. Retrieved October 17, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131017160634/https://www.23andme.com/about/advisors/
7)
Our Team. 4baseCare. Retrieved May 8, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200508100527/https://4basecare.com/about-us/team/
8)
Team. Alacris Theranostics. Retrieved January 14, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230114191417/http://www.alacris.de/team/
9)
Wei, H. (2017, October 12). Alibaba to launch global research academy - Business. China Daily. https://archive.ph/6iJEl
10)
Chiarello, R. (2019, May 1). Famed American Geneticist, George Church, Joins Alveo’s Scientific Advisory Board. Alveo Technologies. https://archive.ph/inv3o
11)
Meet Our Team. Betterhumans. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113074336/https://www.betterhumans.org/team.html
12) , 45)
Nair, P. (2012). Profile of George M. Church. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(30), 11893–11895. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204148109
13)
Our faculty: Associate and affiliate members. Broad Institute. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://archive.ph/CqUM2
14)
Board of Sponsors. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113035318/https://thebulletin.org/about-us/board-of-sponsors/
15)
Renowned Geneticist Dr. George Church Joins Celestial Therapeutics Scientific Advisory Board. (2021, October 28). Celestial Therapeutics. https://archive.ph/oaLqS
16)
Our Investigators. Center for Causal Consequences of Variation. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113001024/https://ccv.med.harvard.edu/investigators.htm
17)
Bo, X. (2019, October 28). Genome engineering, therapy center established in south China. XinhuaNet. https://archive.ph/oJPQo
18)
Advisory Board. Complete Genomics. Retrieved November 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221127145415/https://www.completegenomics.com/about-us/complete-genomics-advisory-board/
19)
George M. Church, Ph.D. Consortium for Space Genetics. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://archive.ph/MI26l
20)
Home. EA Global Boston. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113035038/https://boston.eaglobal.org/
21)
Labenz, A. (2017, April 1). Applications are open for EA Global Boston. Effective Altruism Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20221207211135/https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Rh5a5CHhpP955Winn/applications-are-open-for-ea-global-boston
22)
From Primordial Soup to Nanopores: A Conversation With George Church. (2018, November 5). Flagship Pioneering. https://web.archive.org/web/20230115044446/https://www.flagshippioneering.com/stories/q-a-with-george-church
23)
Bower Laureates. The Franklin Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113001037/https://www.fi.edu/bower-laureates
24)
George Church. Future of Life Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://archive.ph/w7Cez
25)
Stendahl, M. (2017, January 20). Boston-based Ginkgo snaps up George Church-founded DNA maker. Boston Business Journal. https://archive.ph/cDXm3
26)
Goldstein, H. (2013, November 18). Russian Millionaire Contributes To Genapsys’ $37 Million Funding Round. BioSpace. https://web.archive.org/web/20230113180401/https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/russian-millionaire-contributes-to-b-genapsys-b-37-million-funding-round-/
27)
Scientific Advisory Board. Genia. Retrieved June 3, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160603203157/http://www.geniachip.com/about/advisory
28)
About Genome Compiler. Genome Compiler. Retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210119024254/http://www.genomecompiler.com/about-genome-compiler/
29)
Bio-IT World Staff. (2017, October 27). BGI Launches George Church Institute. Bio-IT World. https://archive.ph/ufRYd
30)
The Future of Synthetic Biology with Prof. George Church. (2020, September 22). Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs. https://archive.ph/v2QcV
31)
Eyal, N. (2014, October 18). Harvard Effective Altruism: George Church this Monday. Bill of Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20230113074847/https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2014/10/18/harvard-effective-altruism-george-church-this-monday/
32)
Home. HelixNano. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230112221758/https://www.helixnano.com/
33)
Cook-Deegan, R. M. (1989). The alta summit, December 1984. Genomics, 5(3), 661–663. https://doi.org/10.1016/0888-7543(89)90042-6
34)
Markoff, J. (2009, October 5). I.B.M. Joins Pursuit of $1,000 Personal Genome. The New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20230113181035/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06dna.html
35)
Intelligent Bio-Systems - Contacts, Employees, Board Members, Advisors & Alumni. Crunchbase. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/intelligent-bio-systems/people
36)
Scientific Advisory Board. Ion Torrent. Retrieved January 14, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20120114061324/http://www.iontorrent.com/scientific-advisory-board
38)
Lynx Augments Its Intellectual Property Portfolio. (2000, January 20). The Free Library. https://web.archive.org/web/20120908062001/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lynx+Augments+Its+Intellectual+Property+Portfolio.-a058723058
39)
George M. Church. (2022, December 15). Harvard Molecular Technologies. https://web.archive.org/web/20230112232239/https://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/
40)
Home. Mind First Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018, from https://web.archive.org/web/20180809161302/http://mindfirstfoundation.org/
41)
Person Overview ‹ George Church. MIT Media Lab. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://archive.ph/gYeqs
42)
Scientific Advisors. Nabsys. Retrieved July 29, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150729145756/http://www.nabsys.com/About-Us/Scientific-Advisors.aspx
43)
Professor George M. Church. NAE Website. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113001643/https://www.nae.edu/56128.aspx
44)
Speakers at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders - Offical Site. National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113024545/https://www.futuredocs.com/speakers
46)
Advisors. Noblegen Biosciences. Retrieved February 18, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150218153814/http://noblegenbio.com/Advisors.html
47)
George M. Church, Ph.D. Poseida Therapeutics. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113024849/https://poseida.com/george-m-church-ph-d/
48)
Roswell Biotechnologies, Inc. (2021, October 28). Roswell Biotechnologies Forms Scientific Advisory Board. PR Newswire. https://web.archive.org/web/20230114190637/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/roswell-biotechnologies-forms-scientific-advisory-board-301410793.html
49)
About Us. Supercentenarian Research Study. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113074556/https://supercentenarianstudy.com/aboutus.html
50)
George Church. Tessera Therapeutics. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230113032140/https://www.tesseratherapeutics.com/team/george-church
51)
Shieber, J. (2019, March 15). XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses. TechCrunch. https://archive.ph/a6ErD
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