Speakers 2026

George Church

Harvard Medical School

Harvard & MIT Professor, co-author of 760 papers, 170 patent publications & book "Regenesis". NAS/NAE, Bower Prize, Time100. Developed methods used for first genome sequence (1994), subsequent 20-million-fold cost improvements (via fluorescent-NGS, nanopores), plus barcoding, DNA assembly from chips, multiplex genome editing/writing/recoding; co-initiated: BRAIN Initiative (2011) & Genome Projects (HGP-1984, HGP-Write-2016, PGP-2005:world's open-access, personal/precision medicine datasets); AI-ML for protein engineering, tissue reprogramming, organoids, gene therapy, aging reversal, xeno-transplantation, in situ 3D DNA/RNA/protein imaging; co-founded 48 companies.