George Church: podcast appearances and interviews

George McDonald Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, and serial entrepreneur known for his pioneering work in personal genomics and synthetic biology. He holds the positions of Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Through his laboratory at Harvard, Church has co-founded approximately 50 biotechnology companies. In 2018 alone, his laboratory spun off 16 biotechnology ventures. The research conducted in his lab spans a wide array of fields including developmental biology, neurobiology, information processing, medical genetics, aging, genomics, gene therapy, diagnostics, chemistry, bioengineering, space biology, space genetics, and ecosystems. Technological developments from his work have significantly contributed to the advancement of next-generation sequencing methods and the biotechnology companies associated with them. Church's influence has been recognized broadly; in 2017, Time magazine included him in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2022, he was identified among the most influential people in biopharma by Fierce Pharma. As of January 2023, he serves on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.