George Church
American geneticist
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| 2022 | Fierce Pharma featured Church among the most influential people in biopharma, highlighting his continued significance in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields. |
| June 2022 | Published 20 NFTs with his likeness instead of originally planned DNA NFTs, as part of a project to support genetic research using data from 15,000 individuals. |
| 2021 | Published research in Science Translational Medicine on engineered adeno-associated viral vectors that can evade innate immune and inflammatory responses. Co-founded Ally Therapeutics with a postdoc from his lab who was the first author of the research. |
| 2021 | Church joined as a co-founder of HLTH.network (formerly Shivom), a healthcare blockchain startup creating the world's first global genomics data sharing and analytics marketplace. |
| September 13 2021 | Church co-founded Colossal Biosciences with entrepreneur Ben Lamm, a company dedicated to using genetic code to revive the woolly mammoth by equipping Asian elephants with mammoth traits. |
| February 2020 | Rejuvenate Bio received an exclusive worldwide license from the Harvard Office of Technology Development to commercialize their gene therapy technology. |
| February 18 2020 | Nebula Genomics, Church's personal genomics company, announced a partnership with BGI to reduce whole-genome sequencing costs, sending saliva samples to BGI labs in Hong Kong for sequencing at a rate of $299 for 30x whole-genome sequencing. |
| 2018 | Launched Rejuvenate Bio from the Church lab at the Wyss Institute at Harvard, with the goal of preventing and treating age-related diseases in dogs and extending their overall lifespan. |
| 2018 | Church co-founded Nebula Genomics, a personal genomics company offering whole-genome sequencing services with a focus on blockchain technology for privacy and data sharing. |
| 2018 | Church's laboratory at Harvard spun off an impressive 16 biotechnology companies in a single year, demonstrating his entrepreneurial impact in the scientific community. |
| 2017 | Church lab at Harvard created an adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based single combination gene therapy capable of simultaneously treating multiple age-related diseases in mice, including obesity, type II diabetes, heart failure, and renal failure. This research was published in PNAS. |
| 2017 | BGI established the 'George Church Institute of Regenesis', creating a research collaboration between Church's lab and approximately a dozen BGI staffers in China. |
| 2017 | Time magazine included Church in the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, recognizing his significant contributions to biotechnology and genetics. |
| March 2015 | George Church and his genetics research team at Harvard successfully copied woolly mammoth genes into the genome of an Asian elephant using CRISPR DNA editing technique, splicing genetic segments from frozen mammoth specimens into elephant skin cells. |
| 2012 | Church was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to human genome sequencing technologies and DNA synthesis and assembly. |
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