George Church is a Co-founder and member of the Scientific Advisory Board at 64x Bio. 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 core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He also directs PersonalGenomes.org, the world's only open-access platform for human genomic, environmental, and trait data.

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His 1984 PhD at Harvard University introduced methods for direct genome sequencing, molecular multiplexing and barcoding, leading to the first genome sequence in 1994. George’s work laid the foundation for nearly all next-generation sequencing technologies and companies, including Illumina, CGI-BGI, Life Technologies, and Oxford Nanopore. His lab's work in chip-based DNA synthesis, gene editing, and stem cell engineering has led to the founding of companies in diagnostics (Knome / PierianDx, Alacris, Nebula, Veritas) and synthetic biology / therapeutics (AbVitro / Juno, Gen9 / enEvolv / Zymergen / Warpdrive / Gingko, Editas, Egenesis). He also pioneered new privacy, biosafety, ELSI, environmental and biosecurity policies.

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George is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. He received the 2011 Bower Award from the Franklin Institute and has authored over 700 papers, over 150 patent publications, and the book Regenesis.