George Church

Quick Facts

Full Name	George Church
Occupation	Geneticist
Date Of Birth	Aug 28, 1954(1954-08-28)
Age	70
Birthplace	MacDill Air Force Base
Country	United States
Horoscope	Virgo

George Church Biography

George Church is one of the most popular and richest Geneticist who was born on August 28, 1954 in MacDill Air Force Base, United States.

George McDonald Church (born 28 August 1954) is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist. He is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, and a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. As of March 2017, Church serves as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Board of Sponsors.

In the fall of 1973, Church began research work at Duke University with assistant professor of biochemistry Sung-Hou Kim, work that continued a year later with Church in a graduate biochemistry program at Duke on an NSF fellowship. As Peter Miller reported for the National Geographic series, “The Innovators”:

George Church Net Worth

George Church is one of the richest Geneticist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Church 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

George McDonald Church was born on 28 August 1954 on MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida, and grew up in nearby Clearwater; he attended high school at the preparatory boarding school Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1968 to 1972. He then studied at Duke University, completing a bachelor’s degree in zoology and chemistry in two years.

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After completing his doctoral work, Church spent 6 months of 1984 at Biogen, the industrial laboratory site where Prof. Gilbert had relocated a sizable part of his former Harvard group; this was followed soon after by a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco with Gail R. Martin, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and joint-discoverer of a technique to extract mouse embryonic stem cells.

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Ranked on the list of most popular Geneticist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. George Church celebrates birthday on August 28 of every year.

He has co-developed “genome engineering” technologies since 1997 via either general homologous recombination (recA and lambda-red) or via sequence- specific nucleases. Since 2004, his team has developed use of DNA array (aka DNA chip) synthesizers for combinatorial libraries and assembling large genome segments. He co-developed Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE) and optimized CRISPR/Cas9 discovered by Jennifer Doudna and Emanuelle Charpentier for engineering a variety of genomes ranging from yeast to human. His laboratory’s use of CRISPR in human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS) is the latest contender for precise gene therapy.

What did George Church discover?

George is widely recognized for his innovative contributions to genomic science and his many pioneering contributions to chemistry and biomedicine. In 1984, he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method , which resulted in the first genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori).

How many companies has George Church founded?

Church has co-founded 22 companies, including Veritas Genetics (human genomics, 2014, with Mirza Cifric, Preston Estep, Yining Zhao, Joe Thakuria), Warp Drive Bio (natural products, 2011, with Greg Verdine and James Wells), Alacris (cancer systems therapeutics, 2010, with Hans Lehrach, Bernhard Herrmann, and Shahid …

What is George Church working on?

The fully assembled George Church is 6’5″ and 65. He helped pioneer mapping the human genome and editing DNA. Today, his lab is working to make humans immune to all viruses, eliminate genetic diseases, and reverse the effects of time. Scott Pelley: One of the things your lab is working on is reversing aging.

What has George Church done?

He initiated the Personal Genome Project, started more than 20 companies, and has more than 100 patents to his name. Until now, Church’s vision to revive the woolly mammoth was “mainly dreaming and talking,” he said.

Can gene therapy reverse aging?

BEIJING (Reuters) – Scientists in Beijing have developed a new gene therapy which can reverse some of the effects of ageing in mice and extend their lifespans , findings which may one day contribute to similar treatment for humans.