George Church, Ph.D., is a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute and a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School. He is a pioneer in synthetic biology and personalized genomics. In 2017, Time magazine named him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In addition to being a scientist, Church is also a prolific serial entrepreneur. He has co-founded over 50 biotech startups through his lab at Harvard. He also serves as a Faculty Advisor for the Harvard Biotech Club.
In this episode of the Harvard Biotech Club’s The Pulse podcast, Church discusses his career, his work on developing genome sequencing methods during his Ph.D., and its impact on the Human Genome Project, the development of genome editing methods, his philosophy for conducting research, his insights on entrepreneurship, and his hobbies.
This podcast is co-hosted by Yossef Baidi and Fang Xie.