George Church (geneticist)
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Through his Harvard lab Church 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, neurobiology, info processing, medical genetics, aging, 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 (NGS)" 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''. , Church serves as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Board of Sponsors. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Michael Keane, Jeremy Semeiks, Andrew E. Webb, Yang I. Li, Víctor Quesada, Thomas Craig, Lone Bruhn Madsen, Sipko van Dam, David Brawand, Patrícia I. Marques, Pawel Michalak, Lin Kang, Jong Bhak, Hyung-Soon Yim, Nick V. Grishin, Nynne Hjort Nielsen, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Elias M. Oziolor, Cole W. Matson, George M. Church, Gary W. Stuart, John C. Patton, J. Craig George, Robert Suydam, Knud Larsen, Carlos López-Otín, Mary J. O’Connell, John W. Bickham, Bo Thomsen, João Pedro de MagalhãesGet access
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