George Church is a pioneering geneticist and molecular engineer born in 1954. He demonstrated early technical aptitude by building home-brew computers at age 10 before attending Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, at age 13. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Duke University in 1974 and a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University in 1984. A key contributor to the Human Genome Project, he developed novel DNA sequencing methods and has advanced synthetic biology, personal genomics, and CRISPR gene editing. Church has co-authored over 700 scientific papers, holds 165 patents, and wrote the book 'Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves.' As a serial entrepreneur, he co-founded companies like Nebula Genomics and GC Therapeutics, focusing on genomic therapies. He directs the U.S. Department of Energy Technology Center and leads initiatives at the Wyss Institute. Based in Boston, he is a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, where his lab is located at 7 Divinity Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA (contact: +1-617-432-1278 or +1-617-432-7562). Active on X as @geochurch and LinkedIn, his work has been praised by figures like Elon Musk for its transformative potential in genomics.